Jerry Farnsworth

He was born in Dalton, Georgia and studied at the Corcoran School of Art under Charles W. Hawthorne.

Farnsworth also worked in a soda dispensing drug store, as a Fuller Brush Man, as a Western Union messenger boy, and in a cotton mill and steel mill.

[1] Farnsworth's awards include six from the National Academy of Design (1941), one from the National Arts Club (1941), one from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1945) and one from Grand Central Galleries (1928).

[1] Painter Helen Alton Sawyer was his wife and they operated a summer art school in Truro, Massachusetts.

[2] This article about a painter from the United States born in the 1890s is a stub.