H Burke Peterson & Family - ETP Paintings

With the help of Gayle Peterson Steele we are in the process of receiving the photographs of ETP's paintings from the H Burke Peterson family. Thank you Uncle Burke for your information on several of the paintings. It is so fun to know the stories behind them.

ROBIN PETERSON PEDERSEN Collection of ETP paintings:

Painting of Uncle Burke as a baby. Painted from a photograph in Uncle Burke's home.


This landscape hung in Uncle Burke's office at the Church Office building from 1972-1993.


The Wine Picure: In the late 1980's Evan had all of Uncle Burke's daughters choose a painting. Robin chose this one.

JANA PETERSON STAPLES Collection of ETP Paintings:

Jana Peterson Staples has this painting of Salzburg, Austria. She loves having it in her home and has visited this square which Evan captured and calls it a charming place. I agree Jana.

GAYLE PETERSON STEELE Collection of ETP Paintings:

Gayle and Bill Steele have this painting of Burke and Evan riding "Baldy", Harold's old horse, in Scipio, UT. The boys rode the horse to take the cows to the field.

Bill and Gayle Steele have this Still Life painted in 1951. It hung in three of Juna Tye's homes. Gayle grew up seeing this painting and it brings fond memories.

SHERRIE PETERSON DECKER Collection of ETP Paintings:

Beloved Sherrie Peterson Decker had this one of Monument Valley in her home in Mesa. It is now in her sister Gayle P Steele's home.

H BURKE AND BROOKIE PETERSON Collection of ETP Paintings:

Uncle Burke and Aunt Brookie have this one and only painting of Evan's. As teenagers Burke and Evan worked on it's construction. The church building is located on East Ashland, east of Central Avenue, south of Encanto and was a 10 minute walk from their home.

Notes from Uncle John: The painting that Burke had of the old Phoenix Third Ward building wasn't finished by Evan. David Ragar finished it with some coaching by me as to what it looked like way back when.

Mary Peterson Clyde's Utah Paintings

Please see the changes in italics made thanks to wise Uncle John and my dear old dad (his comments are in bold)!

In case you were feeling intimidated about sending in your pictures, rest assured they couldn't be much worse than these. Really, I don't know why I can't take a straight picture!

My mom and I think that all of these are Utah pictures, but we know little more than that.
Orderville, Utah: it looks like the white cliffs East of Orderville and Mt. Carmel.

The third picture is not Utah--there are no mountains like that in Utah. It looks to me like the Tetons, specifically the Grand, Teewinot and Mt. Owen from near Jackson Lake.

One is a gas station in the desert labeled Richfield. I think is in a little town east of Wickenburg, possibly Morristown or Wittman.

The painting following that is a Utah house.

Lehi Roller Mill

I believe the one after the Lehi Rollermills is in and old abandoned mining town in Utah, Mercur

Given to Sarah Clyde for her high school graduation (2001)

The one following that is in Utah and it kind of looks like our Aunt Visa's (Lovisa) home in Scipio. It looks like Scipio to me. Maybe someone can tell better. Visa was the youngest sister of our Grandmother Sadie Peterson.

The Shaffer Collection

Here's a portrait of Kim, Nikki (twins 3 1/2), and Mary (1 1/2).

Slide Rock Canyon in Arizona.

The Sedona Mountains in Arizona.

Nani and Reid Ivins Collection of Evan's Art

Nani and Reid Ivins, Mark's mother and father-in-law have three paintings of Evan's.

Utah house on a hill. We don't know where.

Looks like red cliffs somewhere in Southern UT, Uncle Burke said that the Poplar trees are indigenous to UT.

Old Gas Station in Orem UT off of State Street

Steven and Pam Peterson's Paintings

Evan's son and daughter-in-law sent their paintings via email a couple days ago. Aunt Pam's comments are below each painting. (Thanks, Aunt Pam and Uncle Steve!)

The Black Forest - Germany This is the 1st Painting that Steve and I received from Evan.

Utah house?

Utah house? One of my Favorites.

Utah house?

Arizona house?

Quite some time ago Evan asked his children what he could paint for them. Steve requested Death Dealer by Frank Frazetta WOW! Steve had put together a puzzle of Death Dealer in his younger days and shellacked it, we are lucky enough to still have it!

Compilation - Amish in Winter Evan sent us a list of paintings and told us to pick one, we were living in Michigan at the time, so lots of snow & Amish seemed like the right painting for us. Mark P. apparently had viewed this painting already and was more than ready to "trade things" to gain possession of this painting. (It is beautiful, isn't it? ECC)

We think this is Redondo Beach in California, I have asked Gail about it before and can't remember what beach she said it was.

This small painting is only 4" x 9", is dated 1934 and it looks like Arizona to us.

MEP - More Art of ETP - Watercolors, Unsigned Pieces, Unfinished Pieces

The following pieces are a collection of oils which appear to be finished but are unsigned; watercolors which appear to be early still life studies painted while a student as many of them have grades on them; and then a few unfinished oils. If you click on the paintings posted by Brooke you are able to view it as a close-up.

Grove of Trees

Maybe Provo Canyon

Papago Buttes?

Gail

Watercolors - Still Life:

Evan received a B+ on this.

Unsigned

B+

B+

Mid-term, no grade.

B+

A- Dated Feb 12 no year.

Unfinished Oils:

Unisgned - Unifinished - painted on painter's board with a BYU sticker on the back 45 cents.

Utah house, unfinished.

Natalie and Ana - Sisters - Unifinished

Ashley B Peterson Willis - Pa's Art

While in Utah we photographed the two pieces of art Ashley and Ethan Willis have.

Looks like Mt. Timpanogas?

Old Utah house by railroad tracks. Don't know any specifics.