Fred F. Haberlein
Born(1944-12-07)December 7, 1944
DiedApril 16, 2018(2018-04-16) (aged 73)

Fred F. Haberlein was an American muralist, painter, and sculptor. He grew up at Conejos Ranch, a guest ranch in Conejos County, Colorado. He studied sculpture and printmaking in college, but he was best known for his murals throughout the western United States, predominantly in Colorado. He lived near Glenwood Springs, Colorado and died in 2018.[1]

Haberlein was twice nominated for the Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. He taught art classes at Colorado Mountain College for eighteen years.[2] His first mural was rendered in Oracle, AZ in 1977, and he completed over 130 murals since then. A Native American friend gave him the name "Lightning Heart," which he used professionally. Haberlein completed more single-handed murals than any other U.S. artist.[3]

List of murals by location

Colorado

San Luis Valley

Alamosa
SiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
U.S. Post Office The San Luis Valley4 x 48 ft.
Crane Building, Main Street Whooping Cranes and Wetlands32 x 43 ft.
Big A Auto Parts Motor Coach Bus Mt. Blanca Sunrise3 x 16 ft.
Sangre de Cristo Panorama3 x 16 ft.
Walsh Motel Bar Toltec Gorge6 x 8 ft.
Valley-Wide Health Services Sierra Vista3 x 36 ft.oil painting
KRZA Radio Pictorial Logo8 ft. circle
Meriwether Photo Van The High Country6 x 34 ft.wrap-around, no longer in existence
Sports Family Haircare The Latir Lakes4 x 7 ft.no longer in existence
Trinidad State Junior College The Great Thunder Bear4.5 x 9 ft.painted sculpture
Antonito
SiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
Antonito High School Trojan Horse Design #14 x 6 ft.no longer in existence
Trojan Horse Design #24 x 6 ft.no longer in existence
Trojan Warrior4 x 6 ft.
The Four Seasons8 x 50 ft.cafeteria/meeting rooms
The Judgment of Paris4 x 6 ft.entry
The Battle between Hector and Achilles4 x 6 ft.
Cristo El Rey Church Dove of the Holy Spirit4 x 10 ft.altar mural
Nine etched glass windows2 x 8 ft. each
Main Street History of the Conejos River Region16 x 100 ft.
Miracle at Tepeyac - Nuestra Señora del Valle de San Luis7 x 28 ft.
Quetzalcoatl de Nuevo Aztlan - The Great Water Serpent of the Rio Grande8 x 48 ft.
Mimbres Rabbit - Conejo for Conejos14 ft. circle
Mimbres Trout - Truchas de Luz10 ft. circle
Cattle Drive along the Cumbers and Toltec4 x 8 ft.oil, no longer in existence
Narrow Gauge Café Sun/Eagle/Aspen16 x 4 ft.
The Box Canyon of the Río San Antonio4 x 6.5 ft.
Narrow Gauge Motel The Cumbers and Toltec Railroad - Four Seasons4 x 23 ft.
People's Drug Store (defunct) The Main Street of Antonito - 1994 x 18.5 ft.
Hayfield in the Bosque4.5 x 32 ft.no longer in existence
San Antonio Mountain4.5 x 42 ft.no longer in existence
Private Homes 4 x 6 ft.
4 x 8 ft.
10 x 14 ft.ceiling
8 x 14 ft.ceiling, no longer in existence
Silo Park The History of the San Luis Valley40 ft. high eachacross four silos
S.P.M.D.T.U. Hall La Alma - The Earth Mother9 x 22 ft.no longer in existence
Los Trabajadores20 x 22 ft.no longer in existence
San Miguel12.5 x 16 ft.no longer in existence
U.S. Post Office Ojo de Diosoutside
American Eagle4 x 18 ft.interior mural, no longer in existence
La Jara
SiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
U.S. Post Office The Conejos High Country4 x 32 ft.
High Valley Insurance Building The High Valley7 x 50 ft.
Valdez Law Offices Shepherd's Sunrise8 x 38 ft.
U.S. West Phone Building The Old Platoro Line Terrace Reservoir12 x 20 ft.
La Jara Trading Post The Wild Horses10 x 130 ft.
Probvost-Le Febre Wool Warehouse The Rams10 x 30 ft.
Catholic Church Adoration of the Magi4 x 16 ft.
Long Branch Saloon Animal Map Alaska to Guatemala4 x 10 ft.
Centauri High School Peregrine Falcon15 x 25 ft.entry
Peregrine Falcon10 x 23 ft.gymnasium
Max Lara Home Cañon Diablo4 x 6 ft.
Manassa
SiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
Town Hall 3 x 24 ft.
Park Jack Dempsey Portrait8 x 12 ft.
Main Street Jack Dempsey in 192117 x 50 ft.homage to George Bellows
America's Farmers and Ranchers Feed the World17 x 50 ft.
Hummingbirds and Columbine Clock5 ft. diameter
Mormon Pioneer Days Rodeo Grounds Fence, Running Rodeo Animals8 x 1,000 ft.no longer in existence
Bronco Busters15 x 32 ft.no longer in existence
Mayor's House Eagle4 x 6 ft.
Other
Town/VillageSiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
Bountiful, CO Conejos Propane Co. San Luis Valley Sunrise10 x 35 ft.
Cañón Valdino Gallegos House Big Game Animals8 x 16 ft.
Elk4 x 16 ft.
Capulin, CO Junior High School Gym Peregrine Falcons12 x 23 ft.
Center, CO La Frontera Bright Promise10 x 60 ft.
Center High School The McClure Memorial12 x 34 ft.
Conejos, CO U.S. Post Office The Old Plaza at Conejos2 x 12 ft.
Gates4 x 6 ft.no longer in existence
The Old Jaramillo House5 x 12 ft.
Conejos Canyon Johnson House Virgin of Guadalupe4 x 8 ft.
Creede, CO Mineral County Courthouse Al Randel Memorial Mural - Bristol Head4 x 7 ft.
Del Norte, CO Rio Grande County Museum Colorado's San Luis Valley4 x 24 ft.
Las Mesitas Lionel Ruybal House Los Mogotes9 x 16 ft.
Moffat, CO Moffat/Crestone Schools The Crestones6 x 10 ft., 10 x 20 ft., 10 x 10 ft.three-wall mural, no longer in existence
Mogote Key's Mogote Store Los Mogotes4 x 18 ft.
Rito Hondo Art Trujillo House Buffalo and Grizzly10 x 16 ft.
Romeo, CO Silo at U.S. 285 Whooping Cranes18 x 22 ft.
Abe's Place (defunct) The Evening Star (Six Sun Power Designs)9 x 28 ft.
Saguache, CO Mountain Valley School Cochetopa Pass Buffalos10 x 40 ft.
San Antonio Jr. Madril House Conejos Peak8 x 15 ft.
San Luis, CO U.S. Post Office San Luis - Colorado's Oldest Town3 x 18 ft.

Glenwood Springs

SiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
Summit Canyon Mountaineering The Crystal and Roaring Fork Valleys from Mushroom Rock15 x 16 ft.oil
Highway 82 - Ed Larsh Barn The Restore the Train Mural18 x 60 ft.no longer in existence
Glenwood Caverns and Adventure Park Glenwood Caverns22 x 40 ft.
Colorado Mountain College Offices, Grand Ave. & 8th The Flattops Wilderness10 x 51 ft.
Community Center Lobby Chair Mountain in Fall3 x 5 ft.oil
Goblin Gulch3 x 5 ft.oil
No Name Arch4 x 6 ft.oil
No Name Arch4 x 6 ft.oil
Mount Sopris from Ski Sunlight4 x 12 ft.oil
Glenwood Springs Community Center Caribbean Beach9.5 x 11 ft.
Mt. Sopris5 x 7 ft.
Colorado Mountain College Blake Center Geology of the West2 x 6 ft.
McConnell Home Train Mural3 x 12 ft. eachthree walls
Old Cardiff School Park Sunlight3 x 4 ft.panel
Moonlight3 x 4 ft.panel
Calvin Lee and Assoc. Law Office North Couloir - Mt. Sopris3 x 4 ft.
City Hall Old Time Canyon4 x 12 ft.
Flaming Gorge6 x 8 ft.
Red Mountain Inn Pictographs and Petroglyphs10 x 60 ft.
Eaves10 x 18 ft.
Additional Eaves3 x 7 ft., 10 x 18 ft.
Ortega Home, Red Canyon Coyotes and Moon9 x 16 ft.stairwell
Little Bavarian Restaurant The Bederzee5 x 9 ft.
The Little Bavarians8.5 x 8.5 ft.
Bouquets of Gentians and Edelweiss4 x 4 ft.total of two
Flowered sign border
Colorado Canoe and Kayak, Grand Ave. Mt. Sopris and the Roaring Fork and Crystal Rivers12 x 22 ft.

Other

Town/VillageSiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
Carbondale, CO Dinkle Building The Interconnected Web of Life - Chair Mountain and the Crystal River9 x 48 ft.
The Crystal River and Mount Sopris4 x 16 ft.no longer in existence
Fire House, Public Meeting Room First Snow4 x 16 ft.
City Hall Los Mestizos10 x 10 ft.with Leo Tanguma for The Latino Festivals
Gunnison Main Street Gunnison Hayfields and Ohio Creek17 x 62 ft.
Leadville, CO Main Street and 3rd Leadville U.S.A.18 x 42 ft.
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum The Rockies - Mt. Massive and the Upper Arkansas4 x 22 ft.Seven murals collectively titled America's Great Mining Regions
The Desert - Sonoran Desert Thunderheads4 x 23.5 ft.
The East - Appalachian Autumn4 x 24 ft.
Man into Space - The First Steps4 x 24 ft.
Above Timberline4 x 24 ft.
The California Gold Rush - Chimney Rock, Nebraska4 x 24 ft.
The Old Log Flume - Lake Tahoe4 x 24 ft.
Rifle Bookcliffs Arts Council Barn 8 x 28 ft.with Diane Seabrook
Salida, CO The Mighty Arkansas and the Angel of Shavano14 x 100 ft.
Free The Monkey5 x 10 ft.two jungle signs
Sawdusky Bldg., F Street The High Mountains4 x 8 ft.
Snowmass Village Snowmass Landscape7.5 x 45 ft.cut steel

Outside Colorado, national and international

LocationSiteTitle/SubjectDimensionsNotes
Oracle, AZ Mother Cody's Cafe Desert Night15 x 42 ft.no longer in existence
White Buffalo - The Stampede15 x 42 ft.no longer in existence
Acadia Ranch Museum Cañada del Oro5 x 21 ft.
Rancho Linda Vista Falcon House8 x 50 ft.wraparound
Waterbird House Desert Vista and four doors with Waterbird designs10 x 29 ft.
Jones House Red Vista with Yuccas10 x 32 ft.
Tucson, AZ Blue Willow Café Blue Willow Legend10 x 28 ft.N. Campbell Ave.
N. Campbell Ave. Parking Area Blue Willow and Lovebirds10 x 15 ft.no longer in existence
Creative Solutions Solar Consultants Sun Power in the Desert16 x 60 ft.no longer in existence
Tucson Art Museum Desert Canyon5 x 23 ft.opening day mural
Roseberg, OR First National Bank The Rocky Mountains after Albert Bierstadt4 x 8 ft.W/M Moore and B. Bell
New York, NY Manhattan Office Building - 48th Floor Cherry Valley Moonrise4 x 8 ft.
Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Stoveworks The Lenticular Cloud - Limber Pines at Timberline4 x 8 ft.
Quito, Ecuador Adam and Eve Restaurant The Garden of Eden6 x 24 ft.

References

  1. "Frederick Fitzjarrald Haberlein (December 7, 1944 — April 16, 2018)".
  2. "A glimpse into a Lightning Heart". Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  3. "Fred Lightning Heart, Part 1". Retrieved 2015-05-24.
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