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Wallace Weir Fahnestock
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Wallace Fahnestock
Wallace Weir Fahnestock (1877 - 1929)
Summer, Dorset, Vermont
oil on canvas, 20" x 24", signed lower left SOLD
Born in Pennsylvania, Fahnestock became one of a core group of artists working in southern Vermont who became known as the Dorset Five. The group included Edwin Child, Francis Dixon, John Lillie and Herbert Mayer. In 1922, this group held their first group show at the Town Hall in Dorset. By 1929, the group that had become known as the Southern Vermont Artists held their first Manchester show at the Equinox Pavilion, which was the beginning of the Southern Vermont Art Center. Fahnestock studied at the Cleveland School of Art and the Art Students League with Frank Vincent DuMond. He also studied with William Merritt Chase. His work is in the collections of the Boston City Club, Middlebury College, and the University of Vermont.
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