JULIE HELLER GALLERIES

Biography

 

JERRY FARNSWORTH   (1895-1983)

 

Jerry Farnsworth was born in Dalton, Georgia and studied at the Corcoran School of Art under Charles Hawthorne. Farnsworth also worked in a soda dispensing drug store, as a Fuller Brush Man, as a Western Union messenger boy, and in a cotton mill and steel mill.

 

Farnsworth's awards include six from the National Academy of Design (1941), one from the National Arts Club (1941), one from the Los Angeles Museum of Art (1945) and one from Grand Central Galleries (1928). Farnsworth belonged to the National Arts Club, an Academician of the National Academy of Design, the Salmagundi Club, Washington Society of Art and the Provincetown Art Association.

 

Painter Helen Sawyer was his wife and they operated a summer art school in Truro, Massachusetts. They wintered in Sarasota, Florida.

 

Farnsworth's work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

 

[edited from wikipedia]