| 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
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Painted in Latin America
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