biography of James Taylor HARWOOD (1860-1940)

Birth place: Lehi, UT

Death place: Salt Lake City, UT

Addresses: Salt Lake City, UT

Profession: Landscape painter, etcher, teacher

Studied: Salt Lake City, with Weegeland, Lambourne; San Fran. Acad. FA, with V. Williams, 1885; Acad. Julian, Paris, with J.P. Laurens, Lefebvre, Bonnat, Constant, 1885-89 (first Utah artist to study at the Académie)

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1892; AIC, 1907.

Work: State Collection Utah; Univ. Utah; Brigham Young Univ.; Springville (UT) AM.

Comments: Harwood opened a studio in Salt Lake City in 1886. Late in life he specialized in colored etchings.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 242; P&H Samuels, 212.