вЂњWe are very concerned with the loss of the collection and would very much prefer that it stay in the public sector and be accessible to the schoolchildren of Cache Valley,вЂќ said Bushman, who is a board member and past president of the Cache Valley Historical Society.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dave Ericson with four of 11 historic Utah paintings that the Logan City School District is selling in a sealed-bid auction. It has a penciled price of $300 on the back and features three stone Farmington houses, which Stewart painted multiple times.) (StewartвЂ™s вЂњLate Afternoon in WinterвЂќ is dated 1924. Bushman remembers attending parent-teacher conferences in the Logan High media center, where he made a point to visit the Stewart painting hanging there. The collection on sale constitutes a вЂњWhoвЂ™s Who of Utah artists,вЂќ said Scott Bushman, a Cache County artist and historian. ItвЂ™s on exhibit in the Hall of Governors, just northwest of the portrait of Gov. Previously, the districtвЂ™s most valuable work, a large Teichert painting - appraised at $500,000 - was loaned to the Utah State Capitol. The 11 paintings each were appraised at more than $5,000, the highest-valued works among the school districtвЂ™s 42-painting collection, said Logan City School District Superintendent Frank Schofield, who added that the district doesnвЂ™t have the money or expertise to safeguard the collection, which has fallen into disrepair while its value has increased. The gallery is accepting bids on the paintings through noon on Jan.

The paintings include works by prominent Utah artists LeConte Stewart, Minerva Teichert and James Taylor Harwood and are on display at David Ericson Fine Art gallery, 418 S. Eleven historic paintings owned by the Logan City School District - which may have been purchased by students in the 1930s through a milk-money-for-art program - are being sold in a closed-bid auction.

Dave erickson fine art