Lynn Fausett (1894 to 1977)
Lynn Fausett’s work falls into the Western landscape tradition. Painted with extreme precision, it is possible to identify every crease in the mountains, every tree on the hillsides. His compositions highlight the impressive grandeur of Utah, focusing on dramatic rock formations that seem to rise from the plain without any prelude. There is a sense of the sublime, although it is not explicit, and power emanates from the rocks and cliffs.
Fausett’s works are owned by the Springfield Museum of Art in Utah and the University of Wyoming among others. The exhibition of his paintings in 1962 at the Old Supreme Court Chambers at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. helped bring about the National Canyons Lands Act.