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FARISH, Sarah Bond
- Born
- Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1807
- Died
- Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1887
- Biography synopsis
- Farish (Moody) was an amateur artist from a prominent Loyalist family. She took lessons in drawing and watercolour with Joseph B. Comingo from 1816-28. She apparently copied representations of well-known works and also worked from nature and local scenes which have been recognised for their attention to detail. Many of these works have been used to illustrate local history publications. She wrote a travel journal including her sketches of a voyage she made with family from Yarmouth to Toronto via the United States in 1843. She exhibited her work, for which she received a prize, in the Industrial Exhibition in Halifax in 1854. Her few extant works are held in the Yarmouth County Museum as well as the Peter Winkworth Collection at Library and Archives Canada.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Painting
- Watercolour
- File & Archive locations
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Library and Archives Canada, ON - Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Buckley, Judy, Lawrason, Jim and John Moody. Journal of Sarah Bond Farish Moody, 1843. Privately published, 2012. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: Privately published, 2012
- Byers, Mary, Margaret McBurney. Atlantic Hearth: Early Homes and Families of Nova Scotia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994
- Lawson, J. Murray. Yarmouth Past and Present Yarmouth: Yarmouth Herald Office, 1902
- Library and Archives Canada. Rocky Shores and Stormy Seas—The Atlantic Region: Selections from the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada, 2009
http://www.friendsoflibraryandarchivescanada.ca/docs/atlantic1_june2009.pdf - Mckay, Marylin. Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950 Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2011
- Sparling, Mary. "Nova Scotia Women and the Ornamental Branches." Great Expectations: the European Vision in Nova Scotia: 1749-1848 Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University, 1980: 53-72
