Ken Sanders Rare Books

01/26/08 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Opening Reception:
Everett Ruess Found!
Two Weeks Only!

Ken Sanders Rare Books in partnership with Marriott Library Special Collections is pleased to announce an exhibit titled "Everett Ruess Found! Two Weeks Only" on Friday, March 21st from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at our downtown gallery and bookstore. The exhibit will feature original artwork from Everett Ruess as well as artwork and ephemera from family members Waldo, Stella, and Christopher. The exhibit, which runs from March 17-30, is in conjunction with Plan B Theatre Company's production of The End of the Horizon, a play about Everett Ruess by Deborah Threedy and is part of the Salt Lake Gallery Association's March Gallery Stroll. This event is free and open to the public.

In November 1934, at age twenty, Everett Ruess disappeared from the rugged canyon country near Escalante, Utah, and was never seen again. Although his burros were found near his camp, his fate remains a mystery. Everett Ruess was an artistic, adventurous young man who set out alone several times to experience the beauty, as well as the fury of nature in the American West. During the 1930s, he met and discussed art with painter Maynard Dixon, and with well-known photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange. He was lured first by the splendors of Yosemite and the California coast and later by portions of the lonely Red Rock Country of Utah and Arizona.

Related events:

The End of the Horizon, a searing drama about the Ruess family and the power of the unknown, will run from March 14-30 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. For more info on this event, visit the website.
The Salt Lake Film Society will screen Dyanne Taylor's documentary Vanished, about Everett Ruess, on Tuesday, March 18th at the Tower Theatre.
The American West Center is sponsoring a post-show discussion on Sunday, March 16 featuring bookseller and Western Americana specialist Ken Sanders and playwright Debora Threedy as well as members of the Horizon cast.

For more information call

Ken Sanders Rare Books
268 South 200 East
(801) 521-3819