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William R. South
(1958 - )
William R. South of Bountiful, Utah, draws, paints, and is a remarkably gifted art historian and curator who has worked at the Bountiful-Davis Art Center, the Salt Lake Art Center, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts for quite a number of years. Will South is married to Allison South, a successful former director of the Salt Lake Art Center. (And Mrs. South, who is back working at the Art Center again [1997], is also an able former assistant director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts). Will, the southern Californian with the fun Jesuitical-baccalaureate-level training from Loyola, became knowledgeable in Utah about the art of James Taylor Harwood. Earning an M.A. at the University of Utah with a wonderful art history thesis about Harwood's life and artistic development, South later achieved a Ph.D. at City University of New York with a dissertation about Stanton MacDonald-Wright, the California-based exponent of abstract cubist-oriented "Synchromism," which uses color as the prime factor in painting. There are also a number of other beautifully written studies by this scholar. His studio designs and media utilizations, mostly in the creation of landscape studies, are intelligent solutions in their uniquely pointed concision.