She received instruction at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York, and on Cape Cod took lessons with Charles Hawthorne, another of whose students, Jerry Farnsworth, she was to later marry, although she retained her maiden name for her career.
The couple remained on Cape Cod, founding an art school in 1933 and living near North Truro.
[2] Sawyer would go on to spend more than fifty years living and working in Sarasota, becoming a noted member of the local artistic community.
[3] Sawyer was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1937, becoming an Academician in 1950.
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