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style for which he is best remembered. He co-founded the American Watercolor Society and, unlike most artists of the time, painted in water colours almost exclusively. His tonalist landscapes, which he continued to create into the 1890s, typically depict a misty or cloudy landscape with a marsh or
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in 1877, and active in the promotion of etching as a creative medium rather than a reproductive one. Farrer's best known etchings depict New York. He etched a series of street scenes in the 1860s, and another series of New York Harbor scenes in the late 1870s and 1880s.
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small pond in the foreground. The sun is often setting in a Farrer painting, and the overall feeling one of stillness. His use of subdued, earthy colors gives his works a meditative mood.
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Schneider, Rona. "The American Etching Revival: Its French Sources and Early Years". American Art Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1982. pp. 40-65.
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Farrer immigrated to America in 1863 and opened a studio in New York. As a newcomer to the American art world, he became a member of the
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During the same period, Farrer became a driving force in the
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In the 1870s, Farrer's landscape work shifted to the
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London
England
UK
United States
American
Watercolor painting
etching
Tonalism
tonalist
watercolor
landscapes
etchings

Brompton Cemetery
London
Thomas Charles Farrer
John Ruskin
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art
still lives
tonalist
Etching Revival
New York Etching Club
Brompton Cemetery
Winter Scene in Moonlight , 1869


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19th-century American painters

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