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JOHN FARNSWORTH  PAINTER / PHOTOGRAPHER
 2240 West Alameda #7 / Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 / 505.982.4561 / info@johnfarnsworth.com

WHAT'S NEW

LADIES OF LE MAS

Oil on linen

40 x 60 inches

Commissioned group portrait

Three generations, Pebbles, Vanessa, Maggie, and Elsie, at home in North Georgia.

BISON BISON

36 x 48 inches

Oil on linen

For price call 505 982-4561

This powerful yet serene painting of young buffalo sparring was created expressly for the exhibition Street Dogs and Wild Buffalo, October, 2008, at our Farnsworth Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

WILD HAIR

20 x 16 inches
oil on linen
$3000

POODLE PRIDE

16 x 20 inches
oil on linen
$3000

MOLLY BROWN

20 x 16 inches
oil on linen
Sold

KACHINAS

Thea has created a new section called:

START YOUR COLLECTION HERE!

 

 

She's filled it with vintage drawings and sketches and with my new series of mixed media drawings and studies.

 

Collectors, new and old alike, as well as other artists, friends, and students have been snapping them up. And I've been having a ball making them. In fact, I call them "Confections", because they're like my dessert course.

 

They're affordable and make great gifts.

 

CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE:

 

 

For more on the Street Dogs and Wild Buffalo exhibit, be sure to check our article in the October 2008 issue of Western Art Collector.

Great news! Thea got her new hip this morning.
 All is well; surgery went without a hitch.
  
 Just finished installing paintings in the all new...
Premiere Gallery Collection at La Posada Resort and Spa in Santa Fe
 330 Palace Avenue at Paseo de Peralta
 Contact Sara Eyestone, Art Curator for more information.
 505-577-4991.
 saraeyestone@yahoo.com

I am very pleased to announce that my work will now be exclusively represented in Santa Fe by the Premiere Gallery Collection at La Posada Resort and Spa, Sara Eyestone Curator. La Posada has long been a destination for artists and collectors and under Sara's direction promises to become a major force on the Santa Fe art scene.
I encourage all my friends and collectors to stay at La Posada when they are in town, and to request the "Farnsworth Suite", where you will feel most at home.
Check back here for more information regarding workshops, lectures, and other fascinating events currently being planned for La Posada.
This is a painting I started sometime back in the early 'eighties. I hit a snag about three quarters of the way through it, and had to put it aside. I kept it in the studio, and periodically would take it out and try to finish it. No luck. for years. Then, about a year ago, I had it hanging in the living room at my studio. One day I looked at it and "saw" the finished painting. I took it into the studio and breezed through the finish. What had been a problem for so long suddenly transformed almost magically into a simple solution and I had a finished painting.
Bigger and better than ever. Don't miss it!   
 Contact Sara Eyestone, Art Curator for more information.  505-577-4991.
 saraeyestone@yahoo.com
PERSONAL NOTE:
Thursday July 23, 2009
17TH ANNUAL KACHINA SHOW

Wakas (Cow Kachina)

Awatovi Soyaktaka Kachina
Ahöla Kachina

NEW KACHINA PAINTINGS

Here are some new to the web images , though Dora, the Zuni Water Maiden on the right is not a new painting, it is shown here for the first time. Click on each image for a larger version and more information.
Niman Kachina
Sio Hemis Kachina
Masao Kachina
NEW IMAGES
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR NEW SERIES OF KACHINA STUDY PRINTS >>>
THEA'S PAGE 2000 ARCHIVES 2001 ARCHIVES 2003-4 ARCHIVES 2005 ARCHIVES 2006 ARCHIVES April 2009
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ART YOU CAN LIVE WITH

NOTE:

Pebbles, now called Miss Pamela, will be representing this year’s Irish Village in the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky. Click here to learn more. Congratulations to owner Moira McCracken and trainer Leslie McKee.

Posted January 11, 2009:
• Changes made to the Trading Post; be sure to see the suggestion from American Airlines.
• See note below for exciting news from the World Equestrian Games, 2010.

Posted January 13, 2009
• Added photos of my old studio in Valenciana, Guanajuato, Mexico to Bio page.
• Added paintings from Guanajuato to Bio page.
• Added Gauchos in Corral Dust Portfolio to Gauchos page.

Posted January 14, 2009
• Added a second portfolio, this one in color, to the Gauchos page.
 

Posted January 15, 2010
• Added Passing Fancy to Horse Paintings page four and to the Giclée page.
• Added Rodeo Broncs to Horse Paintings page four.
• Added Dusty to Horse Paintings page four.
• Upgraded image of Remuda on Horse Paintings page four.
• Added Night Wagon, Taos to Giclée page.
• Reworked information area at top of Giclée page.

Posted January 16, 2010
• Made Eleven changes to the Giclée page.

INTRIGUES
 Oil on Canvas
 36 x 36 inches
 $15,000

Posted January 20, 2010
• Added page from 1968 sketchbook and other content to Trading Post page.
• Whew! Just finished three days of repairs, editing, and maintenance.
• Added images, corrected names, sizes, prices where needed.
• Re-designed some pages.
• Replaced and moved subject titles and dividers on every page. Re arranged content. Saved and published each page.
• Reworked main navigation bar; Re-positioned others.
• Added (on the 17th) a Search Page.

Posted January 21, 2010
• Added information to Available Kachina Paintings on Paintings page.
• Added five images to both Paintings page and Kachina page.
• Added Why Kachinas? Information to Kachina page.

Posted January 22, 2010
• Added photographs of my early days on the reservation plus descriptions to Bio page.
• Added KIVA and BESH-LA-TAAGHI to both Bio page and Kachina page.

Tungwup Kachina

Na-uikuitaqa Kachina

CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGES AND KACHINA INFORMATION>>>

Posted January 24, 2010
• Added Mexican Markets Portfolio to Photography page.

Posted January 26, 2010
• I made a couple of experimental attempts to add html portfolios in place of the flash galleries on the site, resulting in a couple of days of scrambling to put the site back together again. Ended up going through the entire site, a page at a time, making corrections and adjustments and re-publishing. I think it’s all working fine again, now. If you find anything that isn’t working, I would appreciate a heads up.
• Added several images, throughout, while making corrections, including the Mexican Masks page.
• Added and changed images and text on the Gaucho page.

Posted January 27, 2010
• Added Gasparini, Gato y Mancha and Pilgrimage to Nuestra Senora de Luján to Gauchos of Luján page.
• Added Luján Portfolio to Gauchos of Luján page.
• Repaired broken links.
•Repaired Snow Maiden Image on Paintings page

Here's my newest painting, LA POSADA HARLEQUINS, from my recent trip to Argentina:

This is a photograph that I took of myself, while putting the finishing touches on my painting LA POSADA HARLEQUINS.

LA POSADA HARLEQUINS
oil on linen
 40 x 70 inches
 USD $29,000
And just to give you an idea of the size, this is what the piece looks like in our living room. Or did, for a day or two, before I took it down to hang in the Premiere Gallery Collection at La Posada Resort and Spa , here in Santa Fe.
If you get a chance, please drop by the Hotel and have a look. It's hanging right inside the main entrance, next to the concierge desk, on the right.
For more information and pricing, contact:
Sara Eyestone, Art Curator:
 505-577-4991.
saraeyestone@yahoo.com
In September of 2008, and again in November, I traveled to Argentina to photograph the Gaucho and his horse. LA POSADA HARLEQUINS is the first of the paintings from those exciting and rewarding trips. My first introduction to the Tropilla, or Troop, depicted here, was on the Hacienda el Ombú, where the young Gaucho, Pablo, demonstrated his ability to maneuver his remuda of ten or twelve horses by using the herd's natural instinct to follow and obey the lead, or bell mare. (At night, out on the Pampa, the Gaucho has only to stake the bell mare, as the others will not drift out of hearing distance of her bell. And in the morning, they quickly fall in behind her when the Gaucho is ready to ride on. He rides a different horse from the group each day, but never the bell mare. She is usually, though not always, of a distinctly different color than the rest of the group).

Then, on my return visit to attend the Feria Tradicional, a gathering of thousands of Gauchos to celebrate their traditions and events, much like our own early rodeos, with camping, parades, dancing and feats of horsemanship and ranch, or estancia, work, I saw and photographed La Tropilla, an event in which horses from many different estancias are let into a large, fenced arena, and allowed to mill about and blend into a single, large group. When they are thoroughly blended, the gauchos from the various estancias ride in with their bell mares, and, in a gracefully efficient demonstration, all of the individual groups quickly re-form and are led away.

I took thousands of photographs and video files during the Feria, which I later loaded into my computer, edited, sorted, and combed through looking for the animals that I could best use to convey my excitement and appreciation of this thrilling event. I cut out and rearranged them in the computer to create a composition I felt would make a compelling painting. I then printed the result, and used it as my guide when painting LA POSADA HARLEQUINS.
John Farnsworth

Posted January 31, 2010
• Replaced damaged flash slideshow on the Tango page with scrollable HTML images.
• Re-worked one of the images on the Tango page .
• Replaced flash slideshow on Gauchos in San Antonio de Areco page with scrollable HTML images.
• Added Gauchos in Luján page, converting flash slideshow to scrollable images. (with Gasparini, Gato, and Mancha).

Posted February 01, 2010
• Added Feria de Mataderos page.

Posted February 28, 2010

• Created a Daily Photograph Archives Page, replacing the navigation bar which had grown cumbersome, with a simpler, more effective portal.
• Re-organized the Daily Image Archives, and changed the name to Daily Photograph Archives.
• Changes since the beginning of the month have been mostly minor, behind-the-scenes changes, so I haven’t been posting them. I have been catching up on my painting, and working on a catalog of horse giclées.

Posted May 03, 2010

I’ve added some examples of the colors available when using my (Un)Limited Palette to the (Un)Limited Palette Workshops page. Check it out and give me a call or send me an email. Let’s get you or your group set up for a workshop.

YEGUADA / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 inches / © John Farnsworth / Sold

Coming August 01, 2010

A FARNSWORTH A DAY

Painting Auction

Check it out at:

www.afarnsworthaday.wordpress.com

BRAND NEW DAILY PAINTING AUCTION BLOG Posted July 03, 2010