Martha Cahoon Giclee Print (dr)

Martha Farham Cahoon (1905 - 1999) was active/lived in Massachusetts. Martha Cahoon is known for Primitive-surreal genre.

Born of Swedish immigrant parents in 1905, in Rosindale, Massachusetts, Martha Farham Cahoon had a highly successful business partnership with her husband Ralph Cahoon on Cape Cod, selling furniture decorated with folk design motifs.

She came from a family that had moved to Harwich on Cape Code when she was ten years old. She excelled in school, but chose an apprenticeship with her father, Axel Farham, who was a talented furniture decorator working for some of the best-known decorating firms in Boston. Under his guidance, she mastered a freehand method of decorative painting called rosemaling, and later became proficient in stenciling and varnishing.

In 1932, she married Ralph Cahoon, a trained commercial artist from Chatham, Cape Cod, and after her marriage, she continued working with her father until she and Ralph bought a house in Osterville, Massachusetts. Their business life together began as they restored, decorated, and sold antique furniture. In 1945

Notes: Needs a little cleaning and it is sun-faded otherwise in good shape

28" x 21"

18%

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Marblehead, MA 01945

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Sunday, 7/14, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

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