'High Desert' top winner

The Deseret Morning News and The Days of '47 have selected "Utah High Desert" (oil on canvas) by Jared Sanders for the $5,000 Purchase Award in the "2004 Color of the Land" landscape-art show. After the exhibit, which runs July 19-24 in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, the painting will become part of the Deseret Morning News art collection. Other winners in the show are: $1,000 first-place prize to Doug Braithwaite for "Impending"; $800 second-place prize to Brad Teare for "Afternoon Walk"; $600 third-place prize to Steve Kropp for "Late Snow, Foothills." Two $200 honorable-mention awards go to Matthew Warren for "Lilly Pads" and David Merrill for "North of the Sunrise." For a complete list of artists who were juried into the landscape art show, see this Friday's Life, etc. section.