Celebrat
Farnsworth Art Museum
Celebrating Maine's role in American art The Farnsworth Art Museum is the result of the extraordinary vision of Lucy Copeland Farnsworth, the last surviving member of a prominent merchant family that settled in Rockland in 1850. W hen she died in 1935 at the age of 96, she left $1.3 million along with three specific instructions: preserve her home and open it to the public, create an art museum, and build a library. The essence of Lucy's vision was simple: to create something new in a place where it likely never would have existed without her. She wanted to share her vision with the only community she knew as home. Her progressive and far-reaching vision was not rooted in self-glorification, either-it was not to be named for her, but for her father. We are proud to share the institution's history through an illustrated chronology.