Lot 257A
John Farnsworth (American, b. 1941). Deer Kachina and Other Kachina. Pen and watercolor on paper, n.d. Both signed on lower right corner. A stirring pair of paintings by John Farnsworth, each displaying the head and shoulders of a kachina or katsina - spirit beings in the religious belief of the Pueblo peoples that exist as supernatural beings, dancers, and dolls. The more petite piece displays a Deer or Sowi-ing kachina shown with huge antlers, petaloid ears, and a lengthy snout, all against a dark background. Alternatively, the larger painting presents an unidentified kachina, perhaps a version of the Zuni warrior, featuring a yellow plume headdress, annular eyes, a projecting tube mouth, a cloth collar, and a red, yellow, and blue painted body. Size of largest without frame: 9.4" L x 6.8" W (23.9 cm x 17.3 cm); size with frame: 15.2" L x 12.8" W (38.6 cm x 32.5 cm)
Artist Biographical Statement: "Born in Arizona in 1941, John Farnsworth is a mature artist and a painter's painter. Prolific in both watercolor and oils, Farnsworth paints with a contemporary eye and a traditional hand. His subject matter is without limit. From travel and landscapes to animal portraits, from still lifes to Kachinas, he paints his unique response to whatever catches his eye. Self taught, he works from life, sketches, photographs, and video. John paints using a limited palette that he calls the (Un)Limited Palette, consisting of just one of each of the primaries in watercolor, with white added when working in oil. He has painted full time since 1967 and his works range from small pencil drawings to the twenty by thirty foot mural 'Stage' now in the collection of the City of Phoenix, Arizona. Farnsworth has taught workshops in France, Mexico, Spain, Peru, Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Canyon de Chelly, Tucson and Tubac, Arizona. These workshops have covered such diverse subjects as Computers for Artists, Beginning Watercolor, The Horse in Three Colors, the (Un)Limited Palette, and Digital Photography." (artist's website)
Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010
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- Condition: Signature of artist in lower right corner of both. Both fit with mattes; larger with frame. The framed painting has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be in overall excellent condition as does the unframed painting.
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