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1908 Birmingham, Alabama - 1997 San Francisco, California. Known for: Abstract-realist still life, landscape and figure painting, illustration.
Charles Griffin Farr (1908-1997) is an American realist artist whose paintings are intended to convey a subtle emotional tension and sense of mystery. Working within the tradition of American... Read full biography
Charles Griffin Farr (1908-1997) is an American realist artist whose paintings are intended to convey a subtle emotional tension and sense of mystery. Working within the tradition of American realism, Farr's signature style began its evolution in the 1930s, a time when Precisionism and other forms... Read full biography
Charles Griffin Farr (1908-1997) is an American realist artist whose paintings are intended to convey a subtle emotional tension and sense of mystery. Working within the tradition of American realism, Farr's signature style began its evolution in the 1930s, a time when Precisionism and other forms of painting about the process of seeing were major forces. Many terms have been used to define his idiosyncratic work, but "Magic Realism," is probably the closest. By definition, according to famed... Read full biography
Charles Griffin Farr (1908-1997) is an American realist artist whose paintings are intended to convey a subtle emotional tension and sense of mystery. Working within the tradition of American realism, Farr's signature style began its evolution in the 1930s, a time when Precisionism and other forms of painting about the process of seeing were major forces. Many terms have been used to define his idiosyncratic work, but "Magic Realism," is probably the closest. By definition, according to famed curator Dorothy C. Miller, it means that a work possesses a "sharp focus and precise representation: with the difference being 'whether the subject has been observed in the outer world-realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.'". Farr... Read full biography
Charles Griffin Farr (1908-1997) is an American realist artist whose paintings are intended to convey a subtle emotional tension and sense of mystery. Working within the tradition of American realism, Farr's signature style began its evolution in the 1930s, a time when Precisionism and other forms of painting about the process of seeing were major forces. Many terms have been used to define his idiosyncratic work, but "Magic Realism," is probably the closest. By definition, according to famed curator Dorothy C. Miller, it means that a work possesses a "sharp focus and precise representation: with the difference being 'whether the subject has been observed in the outer world-realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.'". Farr himself defined his work as trying "to make things more real than they already were.". Farr's early work from the late... Read full biography
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