Two Girls on a Sunlit Path
Signed lower right: WALTER FARNDON N.A.
Description
Early in his career, Farndon made ends meet by working for the Shuttleworth Marble Company and was a talented carver, helping create works for the Plaza Hotel, Radio City and other New York City establishments. Two Girls on a Sunlit Path was a gift from the artist to Herbert Coope, an executive of the company with whom Farndon and his sister Eunice shared a home in Douglaston, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island for decades, and it descended in the Coope family for three generations. Rendered with the artist’s striking impasto and a sun-drenched palette, the painting exemplifies Farndon’s knack for finding paintable material in a commonplace scene.
Inscribed verso in black: CONGRATULATIONS / and BEST WISHES / FROM WALTER FARNDON N.A. / JUNE 1956
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
(verso in black) CONGRATULATIONS / and BEST WISHES / FROM WALTER FARNDON N.A. / JUNE 1956
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Description
Early in his career, Farndon made ends meet by working for the Shuttleworth Marble Company and was a talented carver, helping create works for the Plaza Hotel, Radio City and other New York City establishments. Two Girls on a Sunlit Path was a gift from the artist to Herbert Coope, an executive of the company with whom Farndon and his sister Eunice shared a home in Douglaston, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island for decades, and it descended in the Coope family for three generations. Rendered with the artist’s striking impasto and a sun-drenched palette, the painting exemplifies Farndon’s knack for finding paintable material in a commonplace scene.
Inscribed verso in black: CONGRATULATIONS / and BEST WISHES / FROM WALTER FARNDON N.A. / JUNE 1956
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
(verso in black) CONGRATULATIONS / and BEST WISHES / FROM WALTER FARNDON N.A. / JUNE 1956
