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Show For September Hafen exhibit set and other to Paris to study and to paint pictures for the Salt Lake Temple, then under construction. con-struction. He was particularly gifted with landscape paintings. He was painting and studying with his son, Virgil, in Brown County, Indiana at the time of his death, June 3, 1910. Gallery hours for the fall and winter seasons are as follows: Tuesday to Friday, 10 to 12 and 1 to 5; Saturday 2 to 5 and Sunday 2 to 8. A retrospective exhibit of the paintings of John Hafen will be featured at the Springville Art Gallery, during the month of September. Over thirty-five of his works will hang during the months of September and October, in the Clyde West Wing at the Gallery. John Hafen' is accredited with the founding of the Springville Spr-ingville High School Art Collection. Collec-tion. In 1903 he gave the painting paint-ing "The Mountain Stream", as a nucleus around which a fine collection could be built. Mr. Hafen was bon in Canton Thurgin, Switzerland, March 22, 1856. His father was a landscape land-scape gardner; his mother, the daughter of a nartist. Early in life Hafen manifested manifest-ed his gift by drawing from memory portraits of his playmates play-mates and teachers, but not until he reached manhood did he succeed in entering formal training and study. Many of his outstanding paintings were done during the time the LDS church sent him |