Larsen, B. F. (Bent Franklin), 1882-1970
Dates
- Existence: 1882 - 1970
Biographical History
B.F. Larsen (1882-1970) was an artist and professor in Utah. He taught at Brigham Young University.
Bent Franklin Larsen was born in Monroe, Utah on May 10, 1882. Larsen enrolled at Snow Academy in 1899, graduating two years later. In 1906, Larsen began taking classes at BYU. His teachers were so impressed with him that he was hired as a faculty member the following year. On September 15, 1907, he married Geneva Day in the Manti Temple. They had five children--Rex B., Eugene C., Celia G., Ronald F., and Grant A. Larsen.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at BYU in 1912 and his Master of Arts degree at the University of Utah in 1922. He also studied at several renowned institutions under gifted art teachers. He died in 1970.
Citation:
Fifty years ago, 1962: caption (B.F. Larsen)OCLC, Sept. 29, 2008 (hdg. Larsen, B. F. (Bent Franklin), 1882-1970; usage: B.F. Larsen)
Utah historical quarterly, spring 1997: page 134 (B. F. Larsen) page 136 (Bent Franklin Larsen; BYU Art Department; AB, BYU, 1912; MA, University of Utah, 1922; advanced studies at the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago; studied in Europe in Paris; professor and head of the Art Department)
BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications, website viewed August 12, 2014 (B. F. Larsen; Bent Franklin Larsen; artist, teacher, humanitarian, leader in his community and church; born in Monroe, Utah on May 10, 1882; enrolled in Snow Academy in 1899, graduated 2 years later and began his career as a teacher in Cove, Utah and then Green River, Utah; began taking classes at BYU; began teaching at BYU as a faculty member; BA, BYU, 1912; MA, University of Utah 1922; chair of the BYU Art Department for 52 years)
Find a grave, website viewed August 12, 2014 (Bent Franklin "B.F." Larsen; born May 10, 1882, Monroe, Utah; Died Jan 3, 1970, Orem, Utah)
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
B. F. Larsen photograph of woodworking class, approximately 1900
Reproduction of a photograph of woodworking class by B. F. Larsen, approximately 1900. Print created between 1970 and 1975.
B. F. Larsen photograph of woodworking class
Beauregard family negatives
Collection includes fifty glass plate negatives of the Beauregard family, taken between the 1890s and the 1910s. Photographs were previously owned by B.F. Larsen.
Better photographs : an outline course in theoretical and experimental photography / by Wayne B. Hales. The relation of art principles to pictorial composition / Bent F. Larsen. Press photography / by Harrison R. Merrill
Includes information concerning basic photographic techniques, photo journalism, and the relationship of art principles to photo composition. Also includes 33 original photographic prints.
Landscape photographs, approximately 1943-1966
Materials include 44 slides taken between approximately 1943 and 1966, possibly by B. F. Larsen. They are landscape photographs taken throughout Utah.
B. F. Larsen collection
Includes correspondence, news clippings, reports, minutes, policy statements, radio talks, articles, lecture notes, art samplings, catalog of slides, art notebooks, and poems. Also includes biographical material concerning Larsen and his wife, Martha Day Larsen.
B. F. Larsen family papers
The correspondence, books, news clippings and history of B.F. Larsen's family, 1892-1939.
B. F. Larsen painting catalogue raisonne
An index including all of B.F. Larsen's works. It is a photocopy of a photocopy.
B. F. Larsen photographs and slides
Collection includes approximately 15,000 glass slides and photographs with images of landscapes, buildings, Brigham Young University faculty, and students. Also includes slides with images of works of art. Slides and photographs were taken between the 1910s and the 1960s.
B. F. Larsen slides
Materials include 225 photographs and 120 duplicates, for a total of 345 slides. 301 of these slides are photographs that may have been B.F. Larsen, the artist, of his paintings between approximately 1943 and 1966. The other 44 slides are landscape photographs taken throughout Utah between approximately 1943 and 1966.