Richard Blossom Farley was born in Poultney, Vermont, and attended the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he sporadically... Read full biography
Richard Blossom Farley was born in Poultney, Vermont, and attended the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he sporadically exhibited from 1902 until 1931. Among his teachers were James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), William... Read full biography
Richard Blossom Farley was born in Poultney, Vermont, and attended the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he sporadically exhibited from 1902 until 1931. Among his teachers were James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), and Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942). Farley also exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Club in 1912 and 1913; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1914; St. Botolph's... Read full biography
Richard Blossom Farley was born in Poultney, Vermont, and attended the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he sporadically exhibited from 1902 until 1931. Among his teachers were James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), and Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942). Farley also exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Club in 1912 and 1913; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1914; St. Botolph's Club in Boston; and at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Art Alliance in Philadelphia, and the American Federation of Arts and the Salmagundi Club in New York. He began his... Read full biography
Richard Blossom Farley was born in Poultney, Vermont, and attended the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he sporadically exhibited from 1902 until 1931. Among his teachers were James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), and Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942). Farley also exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Club in 1912 and 1913; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1914; St. Botolph's Club in Boston; and at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Art Alliance in Philadelphia, and the American Federation of Arts and the Salmagundi Club in New York. He began his career as a portraitist, but around 1912 (the year he lived in Trenton) he began to specialize in se... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (21)
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New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Pennsylvania Impressionism
2002
Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount
340 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Fine American and European Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Schwarz - Philadelphia
47 pages (color)
Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA
1990
Danly, Susan
91 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Sketch Club Tricentennial Year Book A Salute to Philadelphia, 1682-1982
1982
Dooley, John (Foreward)
30 pages
The Sketch Club Tricentennial Year Book A Salute to Philadelphia 1682-1982
1982
Dooley, John M
30 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania
1940
Addison, Agnes (editor)
67 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915
Walter, John; Pedro Lemos
112 pages
Birds of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains