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Henry Farny

The Indian Bear Hunter, 1911

Not on View

Medium

gouache and watercolor on wove paper mounted to paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 26.04 × 14.92 cm (10 1/4 × 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson)

Accession Number

2015.19.2691

Artists / Makers

Henry Farny (artist) American, born France, 1847 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in brown watercolor: FARNY / 1911

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Robinson, Hamilton

Exhibition History

1979: Recent Acquisitions: Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1981: The American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection and the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 20

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 48-51, no. 27, repro

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 98, no. 363.

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