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John Hafen

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John Hafen (1856 - 1910) was active/lived in Utah, Indiana.  John Hafen is known for Landscape, portrait, figure and religious subject painting.

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 John Hafen, born in Scherzingen, Switzerland on  22 March 1856, came with his parents to Payson, Utah in 1862, converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   Six years later, the family was in Salt Lake City. 

Hafen's earliest teachers there were Danquarth Anton Weggeland (1827-1918) and George Morton Ottinger (1833-1917).   Hafen, Lorus Pratt (1856-1923) and John B. Fairbanks (1844-1940) proposed that the Church provide travel scholarships for "art missionaries" to study art in Paris, so that the Salt Lake Temple could be properly decorated with frescoes.  The proposal was accepted; accordingly in July of 1890, the group reached the City of Light.  Hafen explained that he enrolled in the Académie Julian, owing to its high standing: "that school had the greatest reputation of any in the world at that time."  (Horne, 1914, p. 46). 

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   Publications  Book References:  16
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Hafen
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Architectural Digest Discovering Utah June 1995 Frank, Michael Yes
16 Book References for John Hafen
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Poulton, Donna L. and Vern G. Swanson Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts 304 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, Donna L. Poulton, and Janie L. Rogers 150 Year Survey: Utah Art and Artists 160 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Nesbit, Joanne (Editor) Those Brown County Artists The Ones Who Came; The Ones Who Stayed 235 Yes
1991 Swanson, Vern; Robert Olpin, William Seifrit Utah Art 252 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1965 Haseltine, James L 100 Years of Utah Painting Selected Works from the1840s to the 1940s
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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