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Before photography was used to illustrate newspapers and magazines, Jules Tavernier and Paul Frenzeny put their own stamp on things by carving woodblocks for printing to document the expansion of the American West.
A new exhibit, “A Great Frontier Odyssey: Sketching the American West,” which showcases the blocks, prints and images made by these two French-born immigrants, is open through April 4 at the Park City Museum.
“This gorgeous exhibit that comes to us through a company called Exhibit Envoy is a great combination of art and history, and features beautiful, hand-colored prints from Harper’s Weekly Magazine that employed these two artists,” said Courtney Titus, Park City Museum’s curator of collections and exhibits. “Jules and Paul met while living in New York City, and Harper enlisted them in 1873 as a team to travel across the country and document the newly opened Western frontier.”