Biografie von Frank Peters SAUERWEIN (1871-1910)

Birth place: Baltimore (or Yonkers or Cantonsville, NJ)

Death place: Stamford, CT.

Addresses: Pasadena, CA/Taos, NM/ Chicago

Profession: Painter

Studied: his father, Charles; PAFA; AIC; PM School IA.

Exhibited: AIC, 1897

Member: Denver AC, 1891-c.1904.

Work: Mus. New Mexico; Southwest Mus.; Panhandle-Plains Hist. Soc.; LACMA

Comments: (Also appears as Paul Sauerwen) Moved to Denver in 1871 for health reasons and began to sketch Indians in the Rockies. By 1893 he was in Colorado Springs visiting the Ute reservation. He visited Taos in 1899, Santa Cruz and Santa Fe in 1900, Taos again in 1902 and 1903. He was also in California and in Taos a third time, 1906-08. To attempt a cure for his tuberculosis, he went to Connecticut, where he died. Specialties: Western scenes, Pueblo Indians.

Sources: WW06; Hughes, Artists in California, 492; P&H Samuels, 420.