Charles Griffin Farr papers, 1917-1977
Farr, Charles Griffin,
b. 1908
d. 1977
Muralist, Illustrator
Calif.
Collection size: 0.8 linear ft. (212 items, on partial microfilm reel).
Collection Summary: 16 letters; a genealogy; 48 exhibition catalogues; a 1943 newsletter of the War Art Unit; 31 clippings; 41 slides and 35 photographs of paintings; and 28 photographs of Farr and friends. Among them are photographs of Balcomb and Gertrude Greene, Karl Kasten, and John Langley Howard, and one by Imogen Cunningham.
Biographical/Historical Note: Painter and teacher (San Francisco, Calif.) died 1977.
Donated 1978 by Charles Griffin Farr.
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