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The following description for has been prepared entirely by the
current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has
not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon Note 1) Per Artprice.com, see the
following biographical listings regarding Farndon: “Birth place: Coventry,
England Death place: Valley
Stream, L.I., NY Addresses: Yonkers,
NY (1887); NYC, Flushing (1906-19); Douglaston, NY (1921-47); Valley Stream, NY
(1966) Profession: Painter Studied: designer
at a carpet company, painting floral motifs, early 1890's; NAD with Edgar M.
Ward, 1898; Mechanic's Inst., 1900 (degree in arch. drafting, 1912) Exhibited: AIC;
Boston AC, 1903; PAFA, 1904-30; Corcoran Gal, 1907, 1910, 1914, 1930;
Pan-Pac. Expo, 1915; Soc. Indp. A., 1917; Brooklyn Mus., 1921; NAD; Fort
Worth AM, 1933; MacDowell Cl., NYC, 1914-16; Grand Central AG, NYC, 1926,
1928, 1945-46; Nassau AL, 1929 (2nd prize); NAD, annually, 1902-on, with
prizes in 1930, 1942 (1st prize), 1944 (silver med), 1959 (2nd prize); NJ
Fed. Women's Clubs, 1930 (1st prize); New Rochelle AA; NYWCC & AWCS,
prizes in 1925, 1962; NY Soc. Painters, 1936-37; Orlando AA; Municipal Gal.,
NYC, 1939; AAPL, 1944, 1948; SC, prizes in 1919, 1925-29, 1940, 1944; TMA;
NAC, prizes in 1930, 1939, 1942, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1962; All.A.Am., 1940
(prize), 1944 (prize); Westchester AA, 1952, 1958 (special exh., citation
& gold medal); Hudson Valley AA, 1951 (gold medal for 50 years of art
contribution); Hofstra College, 1955; Audubon Artists, 1958; Royal Academy,
1962 (prize); Vose Gal; Boston 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996 (solos) Member: Country
Sketch Cl., 1897; ANA, 1928; NA, 1937; NYWCC, 1927; NYSP; Artists Fellowhip;
NA; AWCS (Treas., 1928-30, Life Mem., 1961); NAC (Life Mem., 1930); Allied A.
Am.; SC; AAPL; Audubon Artists; Westchester Artists; Nassau County Art Lg;
Grand Central Art Gal.; NY Soc. Painters, 1927 Work: BM;
NAC; SC; Hickory Mus. Art (NC); MMA; NAD Comments: A
prolific plein-air landscape painter, he painted in New Jersey and New York
in his early years; later throughout New England, including Monhegan Island,
ME. During the late 1890's he carved most of his own frames. Sources: WW66;
WW47; Vose Gal., Boston, exhib. cat., 1991; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman,
182; Falk, Exh. Record Series.” |
Note:
2) This is a very large Farndon canvas (35 in. x 42 in.) and a very complex and
a very appealing subject and composition portraying the interesting details of
the back streets of Lambertville, NJ and an African-American mother and her
daughter engaged in a normal, everyday activity. Mr. Fastov believes that this
Farndon painting is an excellent example of Farndon's work, as any Farndon
painting offered at auction (See Askart.com) and by Vose Galleries in Boston,
which has handled the Farndon estate paintings. Such assessment is based on the
excellent quality of the pastel coloring and brushwork, composition and, very
importantly, its location in Lambertville, NJ immediately across the Delaware
River from New Hope, which attracted a lot of the new Hope School artists, and,
even more importantly, the subject matter, painted in the Depression years of
the 1930's with its understated, but well delineated depiction of a back street
of Lambertville, NJ and sensitive, dignified portrayal of an African-American
mother and her daughter enjoying a walk together on a sunny day. The record
high price for a Farndon painting at auction of $48,300, was achieved by
Christie’s, NY in 1998 for a painting, that was the same size as this painting
and was, like this painting, indubitably executed in the 1930's by Farndon. It
manifests a similar Depression era subject matter and sensibilities to the
lives and activities of ordinary Americans, as this Lambertville painting.
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This
painting offers an opportunity to sophisticated collectors of American
Impressionist art and art depicting African-Americans in a dignified, sensitive
manner to bid aggressively and purchase a very handsome work of art created in
the New Hope School manner and area in the 1930's.