Midnight Snow in Nova Scotia

Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches

Signed lower right: WALTER FARNDON

$17,600

A rapid painter who clutched his brush in his fist, Walter Farndon captured spontaneous, fresh, impressions on canvas. Layers of thick impasto create a sense of movement and life, an instant of light and color. Indeed, his chromatic brilliance was so dramatic that his nine color palette – emeraude, ultramarine, titanium white, zinc yellow, medium cadmium, deep cadmium, yellow ochre, alizarian crimson, burnt umber and black – became famous. Seeking inspiration elsewhere, Farndon began traveling, visiting shores along Eastport, Boothbay Harbor, and Monhegan Island, Maine; Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts; Long Island, New York; and Nova Scotia. Critics quickly recognized and lauded his fresh, spirited impressions, “Walter Farndon has long been a favorite. You stand aghast and say ‘How can impasto exhibit such exact draughtsmanship!’”

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Estate of the artist
By descent through the artist’s family to private collection, Louisville, Colorado
With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 34346, June 2005
To collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. Arnold Haynes, Wellesley,
Massachusetts, May 2006
Eventually to Haynes Family Foundation, Wellesley, Massachusetts
  1. (verso in black): #77 “MIDNIGHT SNOW” / FOR JON ROLAND / 1985
  2. (on stretcher in pencil, covered by label) FARN – 
  1. Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 34346
  2. (handwritten label) In Nova Scotia / Price $300.°° / Walter Farndon
  1. Walter Farndon, N.A. (1876-1964), Exhibition V, Vose Galleries, Boston, through May 12, 2006
  2. Building Connections: Works from the Haynes Family Foundation, Vose Galleries, Boston, June 2 – July 24, 2018

Good. The painting is not lined and was recently cleaned, and has a small 1” x 1” patch verso upper right corresponding to a small spot of retouch above the far left chimney. There are scattered small spots of retouch in the foreground, in the center and far right snow, and in the center and far right roof, a small spot in the mountain top center and in the distant window, and a few spots and some dots in the sky.

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