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American painter and educator

Edward Deloy Maryon
Born April 5, 1931
Died March 9, 2005

Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Resting place Mountain View Cemetary
Education University of Utah (BFA 1952; MFA 1956)
Occupation(s) Painter, teacher
Employer University of Utah
Spouses
  • Patricia Anne Bushman
  • Judy Kurtz
Children 8
Website http://www.edmaryon.com (archived)

Edward Deloy Maryon (April 5, 1931 – March 9, 2005) was an American painter and educator. He taught art at his alma mater, the University of Utah, from 1957 to 1991, and he was the dean of its College of Fine Arts from 1964 to 1981. He painted watercolors.[1][2][3] According to Utah Art, Utah Artists: 150 Year Survey, “His paintings are representational but contemporary in that the colors are modified and intensified, as is the light and shade, and space is used in an arbitrary way. The subject matter is stylized freely to enhance the abstract quality of the work.”

Early life and education

Edward Deloy Maryon was born on April 5, 1931, to Edward Baker and Helen Sorenson Maryon.[6][2] Ed Maryon, as he was known, grew up in neighborhoods around Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. He went to public schools there. This included Hamilton School for elementary,[7] and East High School; he edited the yearbook there, winning an award for the Eastonian,[8][9][10] and graduated on June 2, 1948.[11][12]

Undergraduate studies

The same year he graduated from high school, Maryon matriculated at the University of Utah. Maryon became a part of the university’s School of Fine Arts, and studied under instructors including Joseph Hirsch, LeConte Stewart (a mentor to Maryon), Alvin Gittins, George S. Dibble, and Arnold Friberg. These teachers, along with Maryon’s later colleague Doug Snow, were among those Maryon would go on to credit as most influencing his own work and teaching.

During his four years at the university, Maryon was active in many organizations. As a freshman, Maryon was part of the Junior Prom Committee and Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) Art Committee, and Division Editor for the university’s yearbook, the Utonian.[16][17] During end-of-term honors he was awarded a sweater for his involvement in student activities.[18] As a sophomore, he was a member of the Centennial Prom Committee and the ASUU Art Committee, an editor for the Frosh Handbook, and again Division Editor for the Utonian—a post that turned into that of head editor for Maryon’s junior year.[21] As a senior, he was a member of the Student Affairs committee, and again edited the Frosh Handbook; he designed the metal link that, during commencement ceremonies, was added to a chain representing the long line of graduating classes.[23] Maryon was also a four-year member of Sigma Chi.[28][note 1]

Maryon’s active participation in student life led to his being one of eight named to Skull an Bones as a junior,[30][31][32] and, as a senior, one of nine named to Owl and Key and one of an equal number named to Beehive.[34][35] Skull and Bones honored junior men who were outstanding in student activities; similarly, Owl and Key consisted of senior men who had been active in student affairs, and who strove to promote class spirit and uphold university traditions.[34] Beehive, proclaimed the “highest honorary at the University of Utah”, consisted of those who had contributed greatly to campus life.[35][note 2] Maryon graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in June 1952.[40]

Military service

Maryon’s In Basic Training, published in the Deseret News in 1953

After graduation, Maryon worked in advertising for the annual Summer Festival,[41] then was drafted into the Army and sent to basic training at Fort Ord in California. “During basic training he kept his pencil and pad handy”, the Deseret News reported, and had at least one drawing published in the paper.[41] Maryon’s unit was scheduled to ship out to Korea; the day before it did so, however, Maryon was assigned to work as an illustrator in the Army Language School‘s Reproductions and Publications section at the Presidio of Monterey. Maryon designed posters there alongside other drafting and art work.[41]

The assignment to the Presidio, which a later biography termed “fortunate”, left open Maryon’s evenings and weekends—time he would devote to his art. The Deseret News reported that he spent his spare time sketching, particularly by the wharf, along the coast, or through his barracks window, and filled multiple sketchbooks with felt-pencil and watercolor drawings.[41] During this time, Maryon’s former instructor Dibble wrote while reviewing a 1983 show of Maryon’s watercolors, Maryon’s work “flowered”; it also presaged a lifetime focus on waterfront scenes.[43]

Graduate studies

In 1954, after two years in the Army and with a portfolio of artworks under his arm, Maryon returned to the University of Utah to pursue a Master of Fine Arts. His instructors there included Harry Leith-Ross, Francis de Erdely, Howard Bradford, and Joseph Hirsch. Maryon wrote his thesis on Portrait in Oil,, and graduated in 1956.

Career

Graphic design

Following graduate school, Maryon worked alongside Ralph Reynolds at David W. Evans Inc., where he was a designer, illustrator, and graphic artist.[45] Maryon would do occasional graphic design into the 1960s, even after entering academia. This included for The Improvement Era, the official magazine of the Mormon Church.[46] By the November 1957 issue, Maryon was listed as an art director alongside Reynolds; Maryon’s drawing for the August 1960 cover, depicting covered wagons along the Mormon Trail, received a first-place award from the Utah Advertising Artists Association.[50]

University of Utah

Shortly after Maryon’s graduation from his masters program, his mentor Stewart suggested that Maryon apply to teach at the University of Utah’s Department of Painting; Maryon did so, and in 1956 became an instructor in basic drawing there.[51]

Personal life

Maryon married Patricia Bushman on August 3, 1953, while on leave from the Army Language School.[6][52] They had children including Ann (born August 9, 1955[53]) and Beth Maryon,[54] and at least two sons (born November 2, 1956,[55] and September 14, 1959[56]). The couple later divorced.[2] In 1985, Maryon married Judy Kurtz.[2] He kept his studio on a piece of property that he purchased from his stepson, Ken Kurtz.[57]

In August 1951 Maryon served as best man at the wedding of Wallace Vernon Jenkins and Anna Lou Dinwoodey;[58] Jenkins was two years above Maryon at university, and also a member of Sigma Chi and Owl and Key. Maryon also ushered at the September 1958 wedding of his sister Gaylo Maryon.[60]

Exhibitions

  • Before August 1956: Springville Art Show[61]
  • September 1955: Utah State Fair art exhibit, including Maryon’s Mrs. Aikens.[62]
  • August 1956: Exhibition of watercolors at the Tower Theatre; Maryon’s first major exhibition.[61]
  • December 1956: Exhibition of Maryon’s works, entitled “People and Places”, at the university’s Art Department.[51] Included ‘Mrs. Aikens, which Dibble reviewed as “one of his best works”.[51]
  • May 1957: Exhibition of works of teaching staff, including Gittins, Dibble, Snow, Angelo Caravaglia, and Maryon, at the University Union.[63]
  • May 1957: Second annual exhibit of painting and sculpture at Olympus High School.[64] Included watercolor studies by Maryon, which Dibble wrote “mark the development of one of the area’s outstanding young artists”.[64][64]
  • August 1957: Salt Lake County Fair exhibit, including Maryon’s watercolor study of a corner market.[65] Maryon received first honors in the category of professional conservative watercolors[66][67]—possibly for this work, which Dibble described as “prize-winning”.[65]
  • September 1957: Utah State Fair exhibit.[68][69] Maryon received an honorable mention in the professional oil conservative division.[68]
  • November 1957: One-man exhibition of watercolors at the Salt Lake City Public Library Board Room and Art Department.[70][71]
  • August 1958: Salt lake County Fair Art Exhibit.[72] Maryon won first place in the Conservative Water Color category, with County Fair.[72]
  • March–April 1959: Exhibition with Caravaglia at the University Union.[73][74]
  • May 1959: 56th annual exhibition of the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, at the State Capitol.[75] Maryon won fourth place and a $50 prize in the painting division.[75]
  • July–September 1978: Exhibition of works by Utah artists and craftsmen at the Salt Lake Art Center, taken from its permanent collection.[76]
  • June–July 1982: Exhibition of works by three artists at the Monterey Peninsula Museum.[77]
  • October–November 1983: Exhibition of watercolors at the Phillips Gallery.[43]
  • December 1985: Exhibition of works by faculty members of the Art Department at the University of Utah, held at the B.F. Larsen Gallery in the Harris Fine Arts Center at Brigham Young University.[78][79][80]

Publications

  • Maryon, Edward D., ed. (1951). Utonian. University of Utah.
  • Maryon, Edward D. (1956). Portrait in Oil (M.F.A.). Salt Lake City: University of Utah. OCLC 43434472.
  • Maryon, Edward D. (1987). Helen & Ed: A brief history of the lives of Edward Baker Maryon and Helen Sorenson Maryon and their ancestry. Salt Lake City: Privately printed. OCLC 18497327.

Notes

  1. ^ In 1951, the index for the Utonian listed Maryon as appearing on page 363—the page for Sigma Chi—although Maryon did not, in fact, appear on that page. The page for the Utonian itself termed Maryon a “perennial Sig sweetheart”, and stated that he “has a faithful sense of humor and gets a bang out of Homecoming”.
  2. ^ Maryon remained involved in Beehive after his graduation, and assisted with its annual banquet in 1956.[39]

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Bibliography

The Improvement Era

  • Note: The index of the June 1958 does not include a list of editorial credits, but notes that “[s]ome of our regular Era features have been omitted from this issue because of lack of space.”

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