Lot 1579
JAMES FAIRMAN (American, 1826-1904)
ARABS WITH A CAMEL ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF JERUSALEM
Signed, oil on canvas
80 x 113cm.
* Fairman was born in Glasgow but raised in New York after his family emigrated in 1832. Following in the footsteps of the European Orientalist artists such as Gerome who had toured North Africa in the late 1860's, Fairman visited the Holy Land in 1871 and, inspired as much by aesthetics as by the cultural and historical significance of Jerusalem, he painted the city many times. In America, his work was shown at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Art Association, and the American Institute. Fairman's paintings are now hanging in the Hudson River Museum and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts.
