Summer Sunlight, Monhegan
Signed lower right: WALTER FARNDON NA
Description
Summer Sunlight, Monhegan was a gift from the artist to Herbert Coope, who was an executive of the company and with whom Farndon and his sister Eunice shared a home in Douglaston, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island, for decades. The red dwelling in the picture closely resembles the historic and oft-painted red house adjacent to Swim Beach, with Manana and Smutty Nose Island across the harbor. Built over 240 years ago, countless artists summering or living year-round on island have rendered the structure in their individual styles; while Farndon took some artistic license with the architecture, his painter’s eyes seem to have been drawn to the way the midday sun sets the clouds aglow and falls on the small patch of earth and foliage in the foreground.
Summer Sunlight, Monhegan (verso) – (double-sided painting)
Provenance
The artist
To Herbert Coope, an executive of the masonry company for whom Farndon worked and also a housemate of the artist’s, Long Island, New York, circa early 1900s
By descent in the family for three generations to private collection, Delaware, until 2025
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Exhibitions
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Condition
Very good. The painting was recently cleaned and has minor in-paint along the edges from old frame rub and a few dots scattered in the house and the tree.
Frame Details
Description
Summer Sunlight, Monhegan was a gift from the artist to Herbert Coope, who was an executive of the company and with whom Farndon and his sister Eunice shared a home in Douglaston, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island, for decades. The red dwelling in the picture closely resembles the historic and oft-painted red house adjacent to Swim Beach, with Manana and Smutty Nose Island across the harbor. Built over 240 years ago, countless artists summering or living year-round on island have rendered the structure in their individual styles; while Farndon took some artistic license with the architecture, his painter’s eyes seem to have been drawn to the way the midday sun sets the clouds aglow and falls on the small patch of earth and foliage in the foreground.
Summer Sunlight, Monhegan (verso) – (double-sided painting)
Provenance
The artist
To Herbert Coope, an executive of the masonry company for whom Farndon worked and also a housemate of the artist’s, Long Island, New York, circa early 1900s
By descent in the family for three generations to private collection, Delaware, until 2025
Inscriptions
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently cleaned and has minor in-paint along the edges from old frame rub and a few dots scattered in the house and the tree.
