Charles Hawthorne and Jerry Farnsworth: A Provincetown Legacy.
(Exhibition catalog)
2008Vose Galleries of Boston. Essay by Rachel Beaupre
20 pages (color)
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1900 Washington, District Of Columbia - 1999 Sarasota, Florida. Known for: Still life, landscape, circus genre.
Landscape and still-life painter Helen Alton Sawyer was the daughter of a prominent Washington, D.C. family. She spent much of her childhood in Spain where she was exposed to fine art and other... Read full biography
Landscape and still-life painter Helen Alton Sawyer was the daughter of a prominent Washington, D.C. family. She spent much of her childhood in Spain where she was exposed to fine art and other elements of culture. Her father was painter Wells M. Sawyer with whom she studied as well as in New York... Read full biography
Landscape and still-life painter Helen Alton Sawyer was the daughter of a prominent Washington, D.C. family. She spent much of her childhood in Spain where she was exposed to fine art and other elements of culture. Her father was painter Wells M. Sawyer with whom she studied as well as in New York City at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, and with painter Charles Hawthorne on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her talent manifested itself early, and she and her father exhibited... Read full biography
Landscape and still-life painter Helen Alton Sawyer was the daughter of a prominent Washington, D.C. family. She spent much of her childhood in Spain where she was exposed to fine art and other elements of culture. Her father was painter Wells M. Sawyer with whom she studied as well as in New York City at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, and with painter Charles Hawthorne on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her talent manifested itself early, and she and her father exhibited in a two-person show in 1921 in New York City at the Babcock Galleries. Sawyer married artist Jerry Farnsworth from Dalton, Georgia, whom she met when they both studied with Hawthorne. He referred to his wife as a "born artist, while terming himself... Read full biography
Landscape and still-life painter Helen Alton Sawyer was the daughter of a prominent Washington, D.C. family. She spent much of her childhood in Spain where she was exposed to fine art and other elements of culture. Her father was painter Wells M. Sawyer with whom she studied as well as in New York City at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, and with painter Charles Hawthorne on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her talent manifested itself early, and she and her father exhibited in a two-person show in 1921 in New York City at the Babcock Galleries. Sawyer married artist Jerry Farnsworth from Dalton, Georgia, whom she met when they both studied with Hawthorne. He referred to his wife as a "born artist, while terming himself a made artist" (Sternberg, 107). She continued to use her maiden name of Sawyer throughout her career. Her painting career is primarily... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (34)
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Charles Hawthorne and Jerry Farnsworth: A Provincetown Legacy.
2008The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesVose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004Vose, Marcia (editor)38 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999Steiner, Raymond J187 pagesRecord of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1896-1996
1998
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesNorth American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesThings of Beauty/Floral Still Life Art by American Women
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E38 pages (color)Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings335 pagesAmerican Women Painters of the 1930s and 1940s
1991Henkes, Robert236 pagesArt by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E146 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings622 pagesThe Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesCentennial Exhibition 1889-1989 Members National Assoc Women Artists
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E62 pages (color)Art by American Women
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E17 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)538 pagesThe American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)Paintings by American Women The Collection of Louise and Alan Sellers
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E56 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesDictionary of American Artists
1982Opitz, Glenn372 pagesProvincetown Painters 1890's-1970's
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Everson Museum of Art289 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973Collins, Jim L.426 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1973
1973Jaques Cattell Press927 pagesHistory of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesAmerican Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
1950
(Exhibition catalog)Metropolitan Museum of Art60 pagesTwenty Painters and How They Work
1950Watson, Ernest W158 pages (color)Survey of American Painting
1940
(Exhibition catalog)Carnegie Institute320 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesA Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
1933
(Exhibition catalog)Harshe, Robert (Introduction)215 pages