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Frank Vavra PUBLICATIONS
1892 St. Paul, Nebraska - 1967 Denver, Colorado. Known for: Mountain landscape, portrait, still-life.
The following, submitted February 2004, is from Sherry Betterton Walker (now Sherry Betterton Carrell in 2024), grand daughter of the artist. Her source is her mother, Eloise Vavra Betterton,... Read full biography
The following, submitted February 2004, is from Sherry Betterton Walker (now Sherry Betterton Carrell in 2024), grand daughter of the artist. Her source is her mother, Eloise Vavra Betterton, daughter of the artist, and records of the Denver Public Library Art and Music Department. Frank J Vavra... Read full biography
The following, submitted February 2004, is from Sherry Betterton Walker (now Sherry Betterton Carrell in 2024), grand daughter of the artist. Her source is her mother, Eloise Vavra Betterton, daughter of the artist, and records of the Denver Public Library Art and Music Department. Frank J Vavra was born March 19, 1892, in St. Paul, Nebraska. When he was about seven years of age, his parents moved to Wyoming and settled there permanently. Frank, the oldest of three boys and two girls, spent his... Read full biography
The following, submitted February 2004, is from Sherry Betterton Walker (now Sherry Betterton Carrell in 2024), grand daughter of the artist. Her source is her mother, Eloise Vavra Betterton, daughter of the artist, and records of the Denver Public Library Art and Music Department. Frank J Vavra was born March 19, 1892, in St. Paul, Nebraska. When he was about seven years of age, his parents moved to Wyoming and settled there permanently. Frank, the oldest of three boys and two girls, spent his childhood and adolescent days in the vigorous and somewhat boisterous atmosphere of Cheyenne,Wyoming. The impressions he was to carry away from that pioneer town, Wyoming's crossroads center since the earliest Indian days, were often colorful... Read full biography
The following, submitted February 2004, is from Sherry Betterton Walker (now Sherry Betterton Carrell in 2024), grand daughter of the artist. Her source is her mother, Eloise Vavra Betterton, daughter of the artist, and records of the Denver Public Library Art and Music Department. Frank J Vavra was born March 19, 1892, in St. Paul, Nebraska. When he was about seven years of age, his parents moved to Wyoming and settled there permanently. Frank, the oldest of three boys and two girls, spent his childhood and adolescent days in the vigorous and somewhat boisterous atmosphere of Cheyenne,Wyoming. The impressions he was to carry away from that pioneer town, Wyoming's crossroads center since the earliest Indian days, were often colorful material for his paintings. From the beginning, Franks' parents were pleased with his interest in painting. They both came fr... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArtists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesPermanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art
1972Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington75 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists
1940Ball, Charlotte (editor)790 pagesSecond National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
1937
(Exhibition catalog)Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay)32 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages