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An example of work by Jerry Farnsworth
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Active in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1915, Jerry Farnsworth ran the Farnsworth School of Art, specializing in figure and portrait painting. He had been a student of Charles Hawthorne and also studied at the Corcoran Art School.
Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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A retrospective of Farnsworth's paintings will be displayed at the Highland House Museum, Truro Historical Society, Truro, Massachusetts, July and August 2004.
Source: Susan Kurtzman, May 2004 |
Biography from Apple Ridge Fine Arts:
| The following biography was provided by Apple Ridge Fine Arts:
A native of Dalton, Georgia, Jerry Farnsworth received his art training at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. (1917-19), later studying with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A highly respected painter and art instructor, Farnsworth was elected a full academician of the National Academy of Design in 1935. His work was widely exhibited, appearing in such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Toledo Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1933, he founded the Farnsworth School of Art in both Sarasota, Florida and North Truro, Massachusetts. |
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