author
Alfred Lambourne
1850–1926
An English-born American artist and writer, he brought the landscapes of the American West to life in both paint and prose. Best remembered for his views of the Great Salt Lake and Utah scenery, he also wrote poetry, essays, and fiction shaped by pioneer experience.
2 Audiobooks
Plet: A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch
by Alfred Lambourne
The Pioneer Trail
by Alfred Lambourne
About the author
Born in England on February 2, 1850, Alfred Lambourne emigrated to the United States with his family after they joined the Latter-day Saint faith. After time in St. Louis, the family traveled west to Utah in 1866, and that journey helped shape his lifelong fascination with landscape, memory, and place.
Lambourne was largely self-taught as an artist and became known for romantic, atmospheric paintings of the American West, especially the Great Salt Lake and the mountain scenery of Utah. Alongside his painting, he built a literary career, writing poetry, reflective prose, and short fiction for Mormon periodicals and publishing books that blended observation, travel, and meditation.
What makes his work stand out is the way image and language seem to belong together. Whether he was painting open water and desert light or writing about solitude and beauty, he returned again and again to the western landscape as both a real place and a source of wonder.