Rosine “Rose” Howard Salisbury was born in 1887 in New Brunswick Canada.  She was a prominent Salt Lake City painter and teacher.  She died in Salt Lake City in 1975.

Salisbury moved with her family to Utah in 1891.  She began formal art studies under James T. Harwood at Salt Lake High School graduating in 1910. She also trained with Lee Greene Richards, Edwin Evans, and Mabel Frazer at the University of Utah.  She and Cornelius Salisbury, also an artist, were married in 1920.  She took summer school courses at the University of California in 1922, and received additional instruction at the Art Barn and at San Francisco’s Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design (1928).  She studied at University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 1922.  She taught at Irving Junior High School from 1922 to 1928; at the University of Utah in 1930 and at the Salt Lake Art Center in 1940.  She began her 23-year career at the Rowland Hall School for Girls in 1929.

Salisbury’s work is painted in oil and watercolor and deals with Utah themes.  Typical of her work are:  Night Blooming Cereus (1930s), The Artist’s Model or Reclining Lady (1936). She won a Purchase Prize at the Utah Fine Arts show in 1926 and Purchase Prizes at the Utah State Fair in 1932 and 1946.

Biographical information on this page was adapted from Artists of Utah.