Word: vose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high class society to him. Light mixes of baby blue and lavender reflect a magical violet and pink sky shining down on picnickers in sun-bonnets sitting under the shade of stubby saplings whilst a glow of yellow gold bathes the hillock rising up from the watery expanse. Vose Galleries deemed this, Picnic Overlooking the Harbor, as Farndon's most important work, and indeed his success in capturing a vision of paradise seems to have compelled him in many of his works only with incomplete and less satisfactory results...
...transition between four or five fairly distinct styles with varying degrees of success. Presumably early influences (Farndon eccentrically refused to date a single canvas) can be found in the late Romantics, as evidenced in some uneventful and rather unexciting landscapes which ended up relegated to the basement of Vose galleries...
Farndon neglected to title any of his work (his family later coined titles in cooperation with Vose galleries) and none of it was framed or dated; only at the prompting of his family did Farndon ever bother to sign his work. Despite what seems a casual approach, Farndon was elected to the National Academy and his work exhibited in the permanent collections of such prestigious museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and others. But with out his family's pursuit of the posthumous gallery exhibition and sale of his work, its future would have remained...