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

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HORSE PAINTINGS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

And just to give you an idea of the size, this is what the piece looks like in my studio. 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 vast, 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

INDIA BLANCA
Oil on Canvas
40 x 40 inches
$18,000

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

THE GOLDEN HOUR
Oil on Canvas
36" x 36"
$15,000

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

LA POSADA HARLEQUINS
oil on linen
40 x 70 inches

PAINTINGS

Drawings, Sketches and Studies

Kachinas

Commissions and Portraits

NIGHT MOVES

Oil on Canvas
50" x 40"

$20,000

CONTRA LUZ

Oil on Linen

50" x 40"

$20,000 USD

KACHINA PAINTINGS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

WAKAS (COW KACHINA)
oil on linen
48” x 72"
USD $30,000

BISON BISON / 36 x 48 inches / oil on linen / for price call 505 982-2212

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.

We have a few more of these oil on paper sketches and will put up images and more info soon.

OTHER PAINTINGS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

WILD HAIR

20 x 16 inches

Oil on linen

POODLE PRIDE

16 x 20 inches

Oil on linen

Dogs are also a part of my Old Masters’ Series, including these in watercolor...

RUBENS' DOG
(After Rubens)
Watercolor
22" x 30"
US $3200 Framed

VIPER KILLER
(After Chaudet)
Watercolor
22" x 30"
US $3200 Framed

BURIAL AT ORNANS
Gustave Courbet
Louvre Museum
Paris, France

Detail

HOUND AT ORNANS
(After Courbet)
Watercolor
22" x 30"
US $3200 Framed

OLD MASTERS’ SERIES / DOG PAINTINGS

ZUÑI

Oil on Canvas

50" x 40"

$20,000

(This is my first major painting of a non-Kachina Indian subject in 24 years.)

INDIAN SUBJECTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

HOSTEEN LASKAI
Oil on Linen on Panel
24 x 12 inches
USD $4,500

OLJEDINÉ (Navajo Moon)
Oil on Linen on Panel
36 x 24 inches
USD $8,400

Navajo Lady in Black and Red Pendleton
Oil on Linen on panel
24 x 12 inches
USD $4,500

DOG PAINTINGS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

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ART YOU CAN LIVE WITH

AHÖLA KACHINA
Oil on linen
9 x 12 inches
USD $1500

NIMAN (GOING HOME KACHINA)
30 x 24 inches
Oil on linen
USD $7200

SIP-IKNE Zuñi Warrior Kachina
24 x 30 inches
Oil on linen
USD $6400 framed

NA-UIKUITAQA Peeping Out Man Kachina
9 x 12 inches
Oil on Linen on Panel
USD $1500

SIO HEMIS (Appears in Niman Ceremony)
16 x 20 inches
Oil on linen on panel
USD $3000 framed

MASAU’U Earth God, Germ God
16 x 20 inches
Oil on Linen on panel
USD $3000 framed

TUNGWUP KACHINA Mong or Chief Kachina accompanies Crow Mother Kachina
12 x 16 inches
Oil on Linen on panel
USD $1900

HONAN Badger Kachina
8 x 10 inches
Oil on Linen on panel
USD $950 framed

WOLFIE
(KWEO, WOLF KACHINA)
Oil on Canvas
24" x 24"
USD $3200

SHALAKO BLUE
Acrylic on Canvas
25 1/2" x 24 3/4"
USD $3200

Featured in the book KATSINA by Zena Pearlstone, UCLA
Fowler Museum

SNOW MAIDEN
Watercolor
22" x 15"
USD $1800 Framed