Block Prints by Everett Ruess
Re-curated 2004

Everett
Ruess, Granite and Cypress. Wood block
print.
Everett Ruess, a young
artist and writer who wandered the wilds of the southwest,
mysteriously disappeared in the Escalante canyons in 1934
at the age of twenty. He has since become both a
legend and symbol of the wilderness he revered.
The love and respect
Everett felt for the places he roamed were expressed in
his poems and essays, as well as in the images he carved
for his precious block prints. He would trade or
sell these prints to the occasional tourist and passerby
to help pay his way for himself and his burros.
Thus the few extra dollars brought him to another vista,
andeventually to another piece of art. His wanderlust
and his art became inseparable.
The prints in this collection
span the last five years of Ruess's short life, from the
age of fifteen to twenty. They portray a variety of natural
scenes and chronicle his travels along the California
coast, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and among
the deserts and canyons of Utah and Arizona.
Five decades later these
images still speak to us with vigor and force. They show
the evolution of a maturing talent, fully capable of capturing
nature in bold and simple terms.
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2008-09 Traveling Schedule
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October 1 - October 29, 2008
Southern Utah University - Cedar City
January 13 - February 12, 2009
Park City Library - Park City
March 26 - April 30, 2009
Wasatch Library - Heber City
April 30 - May 28, 2009
Trailside Elementary - Park City
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