Valoy Eaton

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Armon Valoy Eaton (also spelled VaLoy Eaton ; born March 29, 1938 in Vernal , Utah ) is an American landscape painter .

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Valoy Eaton was born the son of a garage owner. In 1956 he married his wife Ellie (1937-2014). The marriage had five children. The basketball players Lexi Eaton and Preston Eaton are his granddaughters.

He played from 1957 to 1960 active basketball at the BYU Cougars and was in the 1960s, art and physical education teacher at a high school in Salt Lake Valley .

Eaton began painting and won the "Best of Show" award at the Utah State Fair. After that, the demand for his paintings began. After completing his master's degree in painting from Brigham Young University in 1971, he gave up teaching and devoted himself entirely to painting. He has presented his pictures in exhibitions and galleries across the United States.

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Awards

Eatons has received several awards, including the 2002 Utah Governor's Mansion Artist Award. The National Academy of Western Art , of which he was also chairman, made him a lifetime member. In 1988 Norman H. Bangerter appointed him to the Utah Arts Council during his tenure as governor of the state of Utah .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valoy Eaton (1938–) , Ask Art.
  2. ↑ Eaton, (Armon) Valoy ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.springvilleartmuseum.org archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , springville Museum of Art .
  3. ↑ Lee Benson, About Utah: She showed him the light , Deseret News, Aug. 17, 2014.
  4. ^ Valoy Eaton , BYU Cougars.
  5. ↑ a b Biography , Valoy Eaton.
personal data
SURNAME Eaton, Valoy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eaton, A. Valoy; Eaton, Armon Valoy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vernal , Utah, United States