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Birth
1879 (Medoc, Missouri)
Death
1939 (Glendale, California)
Lived/Active
California
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Painters of Grand Canyon
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A highly successful illustrator who later became one of California's best known desert landscape painters in both oil and watercolor, Fred Sayre was born in Medoc, Missouri. His only formal art training was several months with portraitist J. Laurie Wallace in Omaha, Nebraska.
He first worked in lead and zinc mines and with leather goods and then determined to become an artist. He took an engraving job in Houston, Texas, and then moved to Chicago where he earned distinction as (showing 500 of 4067 characters). |
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