Edward McNeil Farmer

Edward McNeil Farmer (1901–1969) was an American artist, designer, and professor. Best known for his watercolors and oil paintings of landscapes and flower studies. He taught at the Graphic Arts Department at Stanford University from 1923 until 1964 and played a role in the development of the Art Department.

Early life and education Edward McNeil Farmer was born on February 23, 1901, in Los Angeles, California. While attending Stanford University, he studied with his aunt, Chloe Lesley Starks.

Career Farmer was primarily a painter, but in his early years he was a printmaker working in lithography and woodcuts, working in watercolors in the 1930s and 1940s, and followed by oil paintings. Farmer served as the head of the Graphic Arts Department from 1940 until 1956. and active in the Santa Cruz Art League, American Water Color Society, among others.

Personal life He married artist Mabel McKibben Farmer, she had also studied at Stanford University. Together they had three children, Andrew, Mark, and Edward. His first wife Mabel died in 1956, he remarried Arbie Stewart Farmer (née Scott) and remained married until his death.

Farmer died after a heart attack on August 20, 1969, in his Palo Alto, California, home.