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Bennion’s work is held in several permanent public collections, including:
Bennion’s work is held in several permanent public collections, including:
* [[Brigham Young University Museum of Art]], Provo, UT<ref name=”BYUMOA” />
* [[Brigham Young University Museum of Art]], Provo, UT<ref name=”BYUMOA” />
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* [[Springville Museum of Art]], Springville, UT<ref>{{cite web |title=Guided Critique: Snow Queen |url=http://www.smofa.org/uploads/files/2186/Snow-Queen-Guided-Critique.pdf |publisher=Springville Museum of Art}}</ref> for children. It does not mention that she is in the collection}}
* Utah State Fine Art Collection (Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection), Salt Lake City, UT<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection |url=https://artsandmuseums.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Governors-Mansion-Art-Booklet.pdf |publisher=Utah Division of Arts & Museums}}</ref>
=== Professional leadership ===
* Board of Directors, Utah Arts Council (c. 2004–2006)<ref name=”DEF” />
* Chair, Visual Arts Committee, Utah Division of Arts & Museums
* Founding member, Spring City Arts<ref name=”UPR2024″>{{cite web |title=A Spring City artist’s reflection on the nearly 40 year restoration of a local landmark |url=https://www.upr.org/show/rural-utah-at-a-crossroads/2024-08-12/crossroads-lee-udall-bennion-ephraim |website=Utah Public Radio |date=August 12, 2024}}</ref>
== Reception ==
Bennion’s paintings have been the subject of profiles and critical discussion in regional and national art publications, including a feature in ”Southwest Art” and coverage in Utah arts journalism and online artist directories. Latter-day Saint cultural journals such as ”Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought” and ”BYU Studies Quarterly” have also published biographical and interpretive essays on her work, emphasizing themes of domestic life, spirituality, and rural Utah experience.
== Personal life ==
Bennion and her husband, Joseph Bennion, operate a shared studio in Spring City under the name Horseshoe Mountain Pottery. They have three daughters.<ref name=”Dialogue” /> Bennion is an experienced horsewoman and has made more than 30 rafting trips through the Grand Canyon.<ref name=”DEF” /> In 1995, she launched “Mom’s Stuff Salve,” a natural skin care company based on a traditional family recipe from the Udall side of her family.<ref name=”15Bytes2011″ /><ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.momsstuffsalve.com/our-products |website=Mom’s Stuff}}</ref>
== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |last1=Olpin |first1=Robert S. |last2=Swanson |first2=Vern G. |last3=Seifrit |first3=William C. |date=1991 |title=Utah Art |location=Layton, UT |publisher=Gibbs Smith |pages=248–249 |isbn=978-0879053857 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Utah_Art/9RInAQAAMAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last1=Swanson |first1=Vern G. |last2=Olpin |first2=Robert S. |last3=Seifrit |first3=William C. |date=1997 |title=Utah Painting and Sculpture |location=Layton, UT |publisher=Gibbs Smith |page=154 |isbn=978-0-87905-669-8 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Utah_Painting_and_Sculpture/y4_qAAAAMAAJ}}
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Lee Udall Bennion (born 1956) is an American painter based in Spring City, Utah, known for figurative and domestic scenes within the contemporary Western realist tradition. Her work has been featured in art publications such as Southwest Art, discussed in Latter-day Saint studies journals including Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and BYU Studies Quarterly, and collected by institutions such as the Springville Museum of Art and the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.[1][2] Her subjects are frequently family members and friends, while her landscapes and still lifes depict personal experiences living in the Sanpete Valley and rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.[3] She and her husband, potter Joseph Bennion, were the first married couple to win the Utah Governor’s Mansion Artist Award, which they received jointly in 2009.[4]
Early life and education
Bennion was born in Merced, California. She is a member of the Udall political family through her mother.[4] In 1974, she moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young University (BYU) as an art major. She married ceramicist Joseph Bennion in 1976, and the two moved to rural Spring City, where Bennion paused her education to begin a family. She later returned to BYU, completing her studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 1986.[1][2]
Career
Bennion’s signature subjects are elongated, pensive figures, often painted loosely from memory, with emphasis on mood and emotional effect over literal representation.[3] Her work has been described as “rooted in the personal and the spiritual,” drawing on elements of daily life and the sacred.[5]
An early work of note is the painting Daily Bread, a self-portrait in the permanent collection of the Brigham Young University Museum of Art. In it, Bennion uses symbols of the maternal and the sacramental to explore themes of physical and spiritual sustenance.[6] Another well-known painting, Snow Queen, depicts her daughter Adah and explores the connection between the artificial and the real through the imagery of falling snow and paper snowflakes.[1]
Exhibitions
Bennion has exhibited widely in both solo and group formats. Notable exhibitions include:
- A View of Four (1990), a Utah Arts Council fellowship exhibition.[1]
- People & Places (2011) at the Pioneer Theatre Company Loge Gallery.[4]
- Practicing Charity: Everyday Daughters of God (2014) at the Church History Museum.[7]
- The Present Tense (2019), a solo exhibition at David Ericson Fine Art.[8]
Selected Collections
Bennion’s work is held in several permanent public collections, including:
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