Caroline Farncomb
{{Short description|Canadian artist (1859-1951)}}
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| birth_place = Clarke Township near Newcastle, Canada West
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| death_place = London, Ontario
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Caroline Farncomb (January{{nbsp}}12, 1859{{snd}} November{{nbsp}}13, 1951)Letter from Catharine B. McEwen, August 17, 1998, Caroline Farncomb Artist's file, National Gallery Library and Archives, Ottawa was a Canadian painter.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/discover/carolinefarncombgallery|title=Mississauga.ca - Things to Do - Caroline Farncomb Gallery|website=www.mississauga.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116020254/http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/discover/carolinefarncombgallery|archive-date=2017-11-16|url-status=live}} She lived in London, Ontario where she was secretary of the Women's Art Association and donated work to start an art gallery, today the Museum London.
Career
Farncomb was born near Newcastle, Canada West and moved to London, Ontario with her family in 1867. She studied in London with Cleménce Van Den Broeck and Florence Carlyle; at the Hellmuth Ladies College, London, Ontario; the Western School of Art and Design, London, Ontario; at the Art Student's League, New York and Académie Julian, Paris.{{Cite web|url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=171|title=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : FARNCOMB, Caroline|website=cwahi.concordia.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116032344/https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=171|archive-date=2017-11-16|url-status=live}}
She exhibited her paintings with the Western Art Fair; the Women's Art Association of Canada; the Women's Art Club of London; with the Art Association of Montreal (1900-1909):{{cite web |title=A Driving Force Biography |url=https://mcintoshdrivingforce.ca/biography/caroline-farncomb |website=mcintoshdrivingforce.ca |publisher=Mcintosh Gallery, Western U |access-date=28 October 2022}} the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1899-1908);{{cite book |last1=McMann |first1=Evelyn |title=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |date=1981 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aMcMann/amcmann/1%2C2%2C11%2CB/frameset&FF=amcmann+evelyn+de+r+evelyn+de+rostaing+1913+1999&8%2C%2C10 |access-date=2022-10-27 |archive-date=11 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011123753/http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aMcMann/amcmann/1,2,11,B/frameset&FF=amcmann+evelyn+de+r+evelyn+de+rostaing+1913+1999&8,,10 |url-status=dead }} and the Ontario Society of Artists (1899-1909) (she was elected a member in 1908), among other exhibition societies and places.{{cite book |last1=Harper |first1=J. Russell |title=Early Painters and Engravers in Canada |date=1970 |publisher=U of T Press |location=Toronto|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aharper%2C+j.+russell/aharper+j+russell/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=aharper+john+russell+1914+1983&22%2C%2C74/indexsort=- |access-date=27 October 2022}} In 1908, she showed her work in a group show at W. Scott and Sons Galleries, Toronto.Thumb-Box Exhibition catalogue, Caroline Farncomb Artist's file, National Gallery Library and Archives, Ottawa She continued to show her work in various local venues until 1932. Farncomb died in London, Ontario in 1951. Her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario{{Cite web|url=http://artgalleryofontario.tumblr.com/post/922661266/caroline-farncomb-born-newcastle-ontario-1859|title=AGO Art of the Day — Caroline Farncomb born Newcastle, Ontario, 1859;...|website=AGO Art of the Day|language=en|access-date=2017-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629162614/http://artgalleryofontario.tumblr.com/post/922661266/caroline-farncomb-born-newcastle-ontario-1859|archive-date=2018-06-29|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12045/12045-h/12045-h.htm|title=Women in the fine arts from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|last=Clement|first=Clara Erskine|publisher=BiblioLife|year=1904|isbn=978-0554334110|pages=120|access-date=2017-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075225/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12045/12045-h/12045-h.htm|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=live}} Mcintosh Gallery, Western University, the Mississauga Museums{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://mississauga.pastperfectonline.com/Webobject/B5F6274F-F1D4-4B59-A658-730655875544 |website=mississauga.pastperfectonline.com |publisher=Mississauga Museum |access-date=28 October 2022}} and Museum London.{{cite web |title=Collection |url=http://collection.museumlondon.ca/search/caroline%2520farncomb |website=collection.museumlondon.ca |publisher=Museum London, Ontario |access-date=27 October 2022}}
Gallery
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Category:20th-century Canadian artists
Category:20th-century Canadian women artists
Category:People from Clarington