Valoy Eaton (Utah, b. 1938), "The Grain Drill" (Midway, Utah), watercolor on watercolor paper, signed lower left, inscribed on the verso with title, signature, and date, 1979

sight: 14 x 20 in., frame: 25 x 31 in.

Provenance: Property from a Boerne, Texas collection

Regional landscape painter Valoy Eaton was born in Vernal, Utah, and began experimenting with art at age five. He continued to pursue his interest in art through college. And in 1960, after graduating from Brigham Young University, where he studied art and played basketball on scholarship, Eaton moved to California, planning to study at the Art Center in Los Angeles. But a one-year waiting list sent Eaton and his wife back to Utah, where he got a job at Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah, as an art teacher and coach. Painting at night, he returned to Brigham Young for more training, working with Dale Fletcher, and receiving his M.A. degree in 1971.