About Alexander Farnham

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    Alexander Farnham studied with Anne Steele Marsh, Van Deering Perrine, and at the Art Students League with George Bridgman, William C. McNulty and Frank Vincent DuMond. While in the Navy (1944-1946), he painted murals and also did covers, illustrations and cartoons for Naval publications.

    He has won over 100 major awards and is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST, and AMERICAN ARTISTS. Recent prizes include the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Award in the Lambertville Historical Society Annual Juried Exhibit at the Coryell Gallery in 2001 and Artist View of Hunterdon County at the Art Museum in Clinton, NJ in 1999. Over the past fifty years he has lectured and served on numerous natio...

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