Jerry Farnsworth Entre em um
sensação, não
uma galeria.
Escolha um estado de espírito e o próprio ambiente responde — a luz esfria ou aquece, o ritmo do ar muda, e apenas as obras que carregam esse sentimento emergem da escuridão. Todo o resto recua para a sombra.
Jerry Farnsworth
A Life of Labor and Light Before he was a fixture of the American art scene, Jerry Farnsworth lived a life defined by the grit of manual work. Born in Dalton, Georgia, in 1895, his early years were far removed from the quietude of a studio. He moved through various roles that demanded physical endurance, working in cotton and steel mills, serving as a Western Union messenger boy, and even laboring as a Fuller Brush man. There was a cer
tain rhythm to this period of his life, one that preceded the more measured pace of his later years. Even while stationed in Washington, D. and.C. with the U.S. Navy between 1916 and 1919, he sought out evening art courses at the Corcoran School of Art. This period of transition eventually led him to the coast. In 1921, Farnsworth arrived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where his path was shaped by the instruction of Charles W. Hawtho…