Homer Farnham Emens (May 9, 1862 – September 15 , 1930) was an American scenic designer who specialized in creating outdoor scenes.
[1] He trained as a scenic designer by Phil Goatcher while apprenticing under him at the Madison Square Theatre in the mid 1880s.
[2] After this, he took a position as a resident set designer at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia; a post he held from 1889-1893.
For act four of Gismonda (1894) he designed a starlit landscape which was lauded by critics, with one stating “probably the most beautiful ever put on stage” for its “simplicity, grandeur, hint of splendid architecture, [and] poetic reflection.”[4] In 1920 Emens left New York City for Carmel, California where he quickly became a leading member of the artist community.
He worked as a scenic designer for the Forest Theater and the Theatre of the Golden Bough throughout the 1920s.