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Art Seen After Viewing the Screen

By: Hilary Nangle

January 2007

SUNDANCE, UTAH—Sundance Film Festival attendees this month also will have an

Aubusson tapestry, "Boys Playing Bowling Games," 18th century,
silk and wool.

opportunity to dine and sleep amid extensive art and antiques collections. In the Sundance Resort’s Tree Room restaurant, owner Robert Redford’s personal collection of American Indian and Western art surrounds visitors. The more than 600-piece collection includes contemporary paintings by Susan Hertel and Sibylle Szaggars and “In the Wake of the Mountain Men,” a 1977 figural bronze by Grant Speed. Traditional works, including “Eye Dazzler,” a hand-strung and -carted, circa-1940 Navajo rug; late-19th- and early-20th century American Indian pots and baskets; and a centerpiece case filled with Hopi katsinas, balance out the collection.

Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel complements the dining with its primarily European art and antiques, selected and commissioned by owners Earl and Carol Holding during their worldwide travels. The five-diamond hotel’s resulting collection ranges from Chinese porcelain to marquetry by third-generation French artist Jean-Charles Spindler. Guests should view the handcrafted Barovier and Tosso, and Moscatelli chandeliers, including the largest bronze-and-crystal ones ever made, as well as oils by Henri Bouvet and John Grey; 18th-century Aubusson tapestries; a Napolean III boule clock; 19th-century Louis XVI gold-leaf mirrors; 17th-century hand-colored engravings and 19th-century hand-tinted Audubon lithographs.

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