Fax art a fax was sent with drawings of all three artist within 32 minutes around the world – from Dusseldorf (Germany) via New York (US) to Tokyo (Japan), received at Vienna's Palais Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art. This fax was a statement of peace during the Cold War in the 1980s. The earliest scholarly "note" of fax art in art history was in 1990 by Karen O'Rourke. Fax art Fax art is art specifically designed to be sent or transmitted by a facsimile machine, where the "fax art" is the received "fax". It is also called telecommunications art or telematic art.
Elton Fax died in 1993, age 83, in Queens, New York. Fax was the older brother of music scholar Mark Fax. The papers of Elton Fax are at the New York Public Library, Boston University, and Syracuse University. Elton Fax Elton Clay Fax (October 9, 1909 – May 13, 1993) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and author. Elton Clay Fax was born in 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Mark Oakland Fax and Willie Estelle Fax. His father was a stevedore at the Baltimore Railroad Depot; his mother was a seamstress. Elton Fax graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 1926,