Louise R. Farnsworth, 1878-1969. American. Expressionism.
Capitol from North Salt Lake (see picture)
Louise Richards Farnsworth was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1878. She painted Utah landscapes in brilliant fauvist style. She died in Salt Lake City in 1969.Farnsworth’s cousin, Lee Greene Richards, influenced her painting style with his use of bright color and his loose application of paint. The neoimpressionist work of Birger Sandźen and the expressionist work of Henri Moser also influenced her approach. From 1898 to 1900, she studied in New York at the Art Students League where her instructors were Kenyon Cox and Joseph De Camp. She later studied in Paris where her work was exhibited in the Salon in 1904. She returned to Utah in that same year. Although she frequently exhibited outside Utah, she maintained a studio in Salt Lake City until 1960. Capitol from North Salt Lake (1935), Hay Stacks (1935), and Springtime (1935) are examples of her work.In 1934, an exhibition of her work, 52 oils of mountain scenes from Utah to Alaska, was exhibited at the Montross Gallery in New York. The Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles exhibited 20 of her mountain landscapes. The Springville Art Museum includes her work in its permanent collection.Biographical information on this page was adapted from the Springville Museum of Art.
For more information see http://webpac.lib.utah.edu/fa/UtahArtists/artists/farnsworth/index.html
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