Fiercely independent and idiosyncratic comparable to Georgia O Keefe - Utah artist Ella Peacock eschewed the limelight and painted in relative obscurity in and around her modest adobe home in Spring City. Her isolation was purposeful as she exalted in the desert landscape and rural setting, rendering the subjects around her in the subtle tonalist style acquired during her formal training at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
Kathryn Abajian was immediately drawn to the eighty-six-year-old Peacock upon their first meeting, and in 1991 she began to visit and interview the reclusive...