Daniel Bischoff Baxter

Daniel Bischoff Baxter was born on 7 July 1948 to Kenneth and Ada B. Baxter in Ogden, Utah. His life in art began at an early age. For many years he and his brother, Ken, spent Wednesday nights and Saturdays painting under the instruction of Frank Ericksen. Following graduation from West High School in 1966, Dan received several scholarships to attend the University of Utah, including a Sterling Scholarship in art, an academic scholarship, and one in gymnastics. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1973 with a B.F.A. As a protégé of Alvin Gittins, Dan taught figure painting and drawing at the University of Utah for two years and also conducted classes privately. He completed his formal education with two scholarships to the National Academy of Art and the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with Daniel Greene, a portrait artist well known on the East Coast. Dan lived for several years in New York City and San Francisco where he primarily painted landscape, portrait, and city scenes. He died of AIDS in Salt Lake City in 1986 at age thirty-eight. “One has to wonder if Danny were alive and painting these past ten years,” wrote Bevan M. Chipman in 1997, “what heights he might have attained.”