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John Fawcett

Birth place or City of origin: Cedar Rapids
State of origin: IA
Last known City: Clark
Last known State: CO
Start/Birth date: 1952
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An award winning artist working in watercolor and oil, John has spent his life studying and gaining inspiration from his subjects. He began his study of the interactions between people and animals first as a practicing veterinarian for twenty years, and then as a full-time artist. He remains fascinated by the relationship between cowboys and animals. This combination of veterinarian and artist has given Fawcett’s works a level of detail in which his first hand knowledge of horses, dogs and livestock is evident. His goal is to not only portray the interactions between animals and people; he always wants “to make the viewer smell the horse, hear the hoof beats, have all their senses be taken in by the painting.”

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ADDED: Nov 8, 2011

An award winning artist working in watercolor and oil, John has spent his life studying and gaining inspiration from his subjects. He began his study of the interactions between people and animals first as a practicing veterinarian for twenty years, and then as a full-time artist. He remains fascinated by the relationship between cowboys and animals. This combination of veterinarian and artist has given Fawcett’s works a level of detail in which his first hand knowledge of horses, dogs and livestock is evident. His goal is to not only portray the interactions between animals and people; he always wants “to make the viewer smell the horse, hear the hoof beats, have all their senses be taken in by the painting.”

ADDED: September 24, 2012

John Fawcett grew up in Iowa, and after attending college on the East Coast, he returned to Iowa to attend veterinary school. He was a practicing veterinarian for 20 years before selling his practice in 1996 to fully devote his time to painting. Working in watercolor and oil, his firsthand knowlege of animals ins evident in his work.

Fawcett has been invited to show his work at the Autry National Center's Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale where he won the Autry National Center award for watercolor in 2010 and 2006: the Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art sale in Wyoming, where he won the Museum Purchase Award in 2006: and the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, where he won the Artists' Choice Award in 1996.

He was selected for the Top 100 Arts for the Parks in 1996, 1997 and 1999, where he won the US Art Award of Merit in 1997, and he was inducted as honorary lifetime artist of the Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson, Arizona, in 1997. He was inducted as a full lifetime member of the American Academy of Equine Art in 2002 and was named the 2009 Artist of the Year by Tucson's Friends of Western Art.

Fawcett was featured artist in the September 2008 issue of Western Art Collector and the May/June 2009 issue Art of the West magazine. His work has also appeared in Equine Image, Inform Art Southwest Art. US Art and Western Horsemen.

John Fawcett is represented by InSight Gallery , Fredricksburg, Texas, Legacy Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona and Jackson, Wyoming and Settlers West Galleries Inc, , Tucson, Arizona

 

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