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Show ARTIST JOHN HAFEPM8 DEAD A telegram announcing briefly tho I death In Indianapolis, Ind., of John Hafen, promineut Utah artist, was received in this city yesterday afternoon after-noon LSronchial trouble Is believed to have caused his death The body will probably be Uken to Sprlngville, this state, for burial His wife and ten children survive. Two married sons, Leo and Parley, live in Salt Lake, and Mrs. J. D Larsen, a daughter, lives at Prove Virgil, another an-other son, has been studying with his father in Indiana for several months, and Mrs. Hafen and some of the other children arrived In Indianapolis on a a short time before Mr. Hafen's death. Mr. Hafen was born in Switzerland ! fifty-six years ago. He came to Utah in the early days with his parents, who settled In Payson, and he received re-ceived his early education in the schools of Payson and Sprlngville. As a boy he developed a remarkable talent for pointing, and after studying tinder some of the well-known Utah 8i lists, he went to Paris and studied for three years under some of tho masters at St Julian academy. He was one of the three artists sent to Europe by the Mormon church to study art for the interior of tho Mormon Mor-mon temple, and upon his return he was employed for three years in that work He then returned to Sprlngville, which he always claimed as his home, and opened a studio, where he executed exe-cuted a number' (of landscapes which have been pronounced masterpieces by well known critics. |