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1855 Payson, Utah - 1940 Salt Lake City, Utah. Known for: Landscape painting, murals.
Born in Payson, Utah, John Fairbanks was a painter, muralist, copyist and art educator who traveled extensively from his native state of Utah to study in Europe, explore the Southwest, direct a major... Read full biography
Born in Payson, Utah, John Fairbanks was a painter, muralist, copyist and art educator who traveled extensively from his native state of Utah to study in Europe, explore the Southwest, direct a major archaeological expedition to Mexico and homestead in Canada. As a painter he was known for his... Read full biography
Born in Payson, Utah, John Fairbanks was a painter, muralist, copyist and art educator who traveled extensively from his native state of Utah to study in Europe, explore the Southwest, direct a major archaeological expedition to Mexico and homestead in Canada. As a painter he was known for his "glowing harvestscapes, a subject he knew well from his years of farming" (Dawdy, 84). He also did many scenes of Zion National Park, where he spent four summers, and from 1920, he painted frequently in... Read full biography
Born in Payson, Utah, John Fairbanks was a painter, muralist, copyist and art educator who traveled extensively from his native state of Utah to study in Europe, explore the Southwest, direct a major archaeological expedition to Mexico and homestead in Canada. As a painter he was known for his "glowing harvestscapes, a subject he knew well from his years of farming" (Dawdy, 84). He also did many scenes of Zion National Park, where he spent four summers, and from 1920, he painted frequently in Bryce Canyon. His father, John Fairbanks, was a Mormon bishop and Indian agent, and young John began painting by copying chromolithographs. He was then given lessons by his friend John Hafen, landscape, portrait and figure painter, and they did much... Read full biography
Born in Payson, Utah, John Fairbanks was a painter, muralist, copyist and art educator who traveled extensively from his native state of Utah to study in Europe, explore the Southwest, direct a major archaeological expedition to Mexico and homestead in Canada. As a painter he was known for his "glowing harvestscapes, a subject he knew well from his years of farming" (Dawdy, 84). He also did many scenes of Zion National Park, where he spent four summers, and from 1920, he painted frequently in Bryce Canyon. His father, John Fairbanks, was a Mormon bishop and Indian agent, and young John began painting by copying chromolithographs. He was then given lessons by his friend John Hafen, landscape, portrait and figure painter, and they did much painting together around Ogden. Fairbanks also took many photographs on those excursions for later enlarging into... Read full biography
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Keywords (28)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Farm, Barn, Ranch Scene and/or Agricultural Genre
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Bryce Canyon National Park
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •South America
- •Zion National Park
Art Teacher
- •Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
- •Jean Paul Laurens
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Alice Art Collection, Utah
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
- •French Art Mission Artist-Mormon Church
- •Mural Specialty