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Painting the Desert of Helper - SLUG Magazine

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Arts For landscape painters far and wide, summertime can only mean one thing: enjoying the thrill of painting en plein air (in the open air). Utah’s tradition of plein air painting is older than the state itself, and that tradition has firmly found new purpose in the cozy town of Helper.

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