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Francis Leroy Horspool
(Ogden, Utah, 1871 - 1951, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Francis Leroy Horspool was a self-proclaimed "primitive" painter of a unique frame of mind. Born and raised in Ogden, Utah, Horspool was the son of an English Mormon emigrant, William F. Horspool, who arrived here in 1862. William drove for Ben Holliday's Overland Stage Company between 1864 and '69, and later he shared these experiences with Francis. The younger Horspool worked early as both a fireman and, like his father, a railroad man. Moving to Salt Lake City in 1907, he also took jobs as a civil engineer, a salesman, and, most importantly, a draftsman in 1917. As he developed skill and love for precision drawing as a draftsman, between 1924 and '27 Horspool turned the brush and photography as his all-consuming loves. His work is all two-coat work; that is, the second coat is the same as the first in color. Also, a painting by Horspool was typically framed with material onto which the painting could extend; from a distance, such work appears frameless. Horspool also maintained that a number of his works were haunted by fairies, and condemned all art that was not "primitive" like his own. He was fond of augmenting his scenes with fantastic figures and faces done in great detail. He died at the age of eighty in Salt Lake City.
(Ogden, Utah, 1871 - 1951, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Francis Leroy Horspool was a self-proclaimed "primitive" painter of a unique frame of mind. Born and raised in Ogden, Utah, Horspool was the son of an English Mormon emigrant, William F. Horspool, who arrived here in 1862. William drove for Ben Holliday's Overland Stage Company between 1864 and '69, and later he shared these experiences with Francis. The younger Horspool worked early as both a fireman and, like his father, a railroad man. Moving to Salt Lake City in 1907, he also took jobs as a civil engineer, a salesman, and, most importantly, a draftsman in 1917. As he developed skill and love for precision drawing as a draftsman, between 1924 and '27 Horspool turned the brush and photography as his all-consuming loves. His work is all two-coat work; that is, the second coat is the same as the first in color. Also, a painting by Horspool was typically framed with material onto which the painting could extend; from a distance, such work appears frameless. Horspool also maintained that a number of his works were haunted by fairies, and condemned all art that was not "primitive" like his own. He was fond of augmenting his scenes with fantastic figures and faces done in great detail. He died at the age of eighty in Salt Lake City.
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