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Richard Farley

Richard Blossom Farley (1875 - 1954) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont.  Richard Farley is known for Portrait, sea-landscape, and wildlife painting.

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 seascapes.

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Facts about Richard Farley

   Publications  Book References:  21
Magazine References:  0

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21 Book References for Richard Farley
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 Alterman, James M. New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony 612 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount Pennsylvania Impressionism 340 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1991 Schwarz - Philadelphia Fine American and European Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
47 Yes
1990 Danly, Susan Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA 91 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Dooley, John (Foreward) Sketch Club Tricentennial Year Book A Salute to Philadelphia, 1682-1982 30 No
1982 Dooley, John M The Sketch Club Tricentennial Year Book A Salute to Philadelphia 1682-1982 30 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1940 Addison, Agnes (editor) Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania 67 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1898 Apgar, Austin C Birds of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains 415 No
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