A native of Dalton, Georgia, Jerry Farnsworth received his art training at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. (1917-19), later studying with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A highly respected painter and art instructor, Farnsworth was elected a full academician of the National Academy of Design in 1935. His work was widely exhibited, appearing in such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Toledo Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1933, he founded the Farnsworth School of Art in both Sarasota, Florida and North Truro, Massachusetts.

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