2006 Recipient of the 10th annual Iris Award for outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. The following... Read full biography
2006 Recipient of the 10th annual Iris Award for outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. The following information was submitted by the artist in April of 2003:. A landscape painter and muralist in the... Read full biography
2006 Recipient of the 10th annual Iris Award for outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. The following information was submitted by the artist in April of 2003:. A landscape painter and muralist in the Boston area, Jonathan Fairbanks, in 1971, founded the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. From that time until 1999 when the Department was merged... Read full biography
2006 Recipient of the 10th annual Iris Award for outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. The following information was submitted by the artist in April of 2003:. A landscape painter and muralist in the Boston area, Jonathan Fairbanks, in 1971, founded the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. From that time until 1999 when the Department was merged with another department, Fairbanks was full Curator. Subsequently he became the Katharine Lane Weems Lane Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Emeritus, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the sixth... Read full biography
2006 Recipient of the 10th annual Iris Award for outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. The following information was submitted by the artist in April of 2003:. A landscape painter and muralist in the Boston area, Jonathan Fairbanks, in 1971, founded the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. From that time until 1999 when the Department was merged with another department, Fairbanks was full Curator. Subsequently he became the Katharine Lane Weems Lane Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Emeritus, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the sixth son of sculptor Avard T. Fairbanks, and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Utah in 1953. ... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (6)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Jonathan Leo Fairbanks A Painter's Journey, 1952-2004 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Woods, Jean; Julie Carlson
63 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes