Alfred Lambourne, (1850-1926) the son of William and Martha W. Lambourne, was born in England and came to America as a child. The family remained in St. Louis, Missouri for several years before they came west to Utah, as pioneers.
In his early childhood, Alfred Lambourne showed a love for art, and started drawing at an early age. Soon after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, he obtained employment as a scenic artist in the Salt Lake Theatre. He remained there several years, first as an assistant, and later as chief scenic artist.
For years, he was a close friend and associate of the late Charles R. Savage, a pioneer photographer. Together, they toured the West and parts of the east, with Savage taking photos, and Lambourne painting as they went. Lambourne also visited the entire Wasatch range with artist H. L. A. Culmer. Together, they explored and named the now well-known Wasatch mountain lakes in the upper Cottonwoods. Lambourne also toured Yosemite, Glacier National Park, Colorado, Arizona, and other parts of the scenic west. With Teuben Kirkham, he painted a series of large canvasses representing his journey from the eastern coast of the United States, to the Golden Gate. Some of his best-known paintings represented scenes on the islands and shores of the Great Salt Lake. In 1871, he went to Zion Canyon with Brigham Young and painted the first canvas from that area.
While he is famous as a landscape artist, Alfred Lambourne was also a writer, and seemed to prefer writing over painting by the 1890s. He published fourteen books, on a myriad of topics, and illustrated some of them personally.
Alfred Lambourne married Wilhelmina M. Williamson (1842-1906), in 1877, and together they had eight children. Alfred Lambourne died in 1926.
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's
Gift of Emily Smith Stewart papers in 1969.
Gift of Virginia Lambourne in 1978.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Processed by Nehmat Saab in 1985.
The Alfred Lambourne papers (1912, 1916) primarily consists of photocopies of writings by Lambourne and correspondence [4 letters]. Also included are short stories [printouts] by Martha Antoinette Lambourne Fowler.
See also the
Primarily photocopies.
The articles in this folder are published, and deal mainly with art and literature. It includes "The Wasatch Story of Plet," which appeared in the
These are a series of articles published in the
These articles are psycho-analytic love stories, or "studies," dealing with the different personalities of women, as seen by a man in 1925.
"Genius," "Lady," "In the House or Rammer," "Hesper," "Myrtle," "First Hours at Yellowstone Park," and "Genius," "Autumn in Yosemite Valley," "Egdyth."
3 handwritten letters from Alfred Lambourne to George W. Lambourne; and 1 typewritten copy of letter to Alfred Lambourne.
Contains a review of Lambourne's book