One of the paintings of Paul Salisbury
is entitled “The Strays,” yet the artist has
never strayed from his objective of portraying
the West as it really is.

Paul Salisbury was born in Richfield,
Utah, on November 21, 1904, and he now
lives in Provo, not far from his birthplace. In

“the meantime, though, he has traveled in the

wild country of his native state and the sur-
rounding regions, talked with Indians, pio-
neers and cowboys, and absorbed the meaning
of the life they lead. In his studio today he
depicts the whole scope of the Western scene
from this intimate knowledge gained over
many decades.

He began riding horses and trying to
draw them when he was only six or seven on
his father’s ranch near Kanosh Indian Reser-
vation in southern Utah.

He says that he was greatly influenced by
the paintings of Frank Tenney Johnson. Salis-
bury began doing jacket paintings for the
Western Horseman and the Desert Magazine
and other publications, and also for banks and
libraries and universities. He has held exhibits
from Reno, Nevada, to Boston, Massachusetts,
and from San Francisco, California, to Atlanta,
Georgia. One notable outlet is the Kachina
Gallery of Dwight Roberts in Santa Fe. The
breadth of his interest is indicated by the titles
of some of his paintings: “The Nesters,”
“Rivers to Cross,” “Buffalo Hunters,” “Taking
a Breather,” .“ Water . Hole Conference,”

“Bringing in the Chuck Wagon,” and “The
Strays.”

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one of his paintings