biographie de John FERY (1859-1934)

Birth place: Austria/Hungary

Death place: Everett, WA

Addresses: Minnesota; Milwaukee, WI; Morristown, NJ; Cleveland, OH, 189O; Utah,1900; Calif.; Ariz.; Oregon

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Vienna, with Gripenkerl; Düsseldorf, with Peter Jansen, and Karlsruhe with Schwenlehr, both Germany, also in Munich.

Exhibited: World's Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; Everett Drama League, 1930, 1931; Regional Painters of Puget Sound, 1870-1920, Mus. of Hist. and Indust., Seattle, 1986

Work: St. Louis County Hist. Soc, Duluth, MN

Comments: A member of an Austrian aristocratic family, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1886 and gained recognition painting landscapes and hunting scenes. He led European nobility on hunting trips in the Northwest c. 1892-93, and began painting the Western landscape. Commissioned by the Great Northern Railroad, he painted the scenery along the railroad through the West, thus contributing to the creation of Glacier National Park.

Sources: WW01; Hughes, Artists of California, 180; Trip and Cook, Washington State Art and Artists, 1850-1950; 300 Years of American Art, 536.