Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Property from a Private American Western Collector

Henry François Farny

The Happy Days of Long Ago

Session begins in

January 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Bid

420,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Western Collector

Henry François Farny

1847 - 1916


The Happy Days of Long Ago

signed H.F. Farny and dated 1912 (lower right)

oil on canvas

33 by 23 in.

83.8 by 58.4 cm.

Executed in 1912.

Louis J. Hauck, Cincinnati (acquired by 1917)

Frieda Hauck, Cincinnati (acquired by descent from the above in 1942)

Cincinnati Art Museum (acquired by bequest from the above in 1955)

Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1979)

Darryl Greenmayer, Indio, California (acquired by 1981)

J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

“Henry Farny, The Artist and the Man,” Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, 21 January 1917, p. 1 (titled In the Days of Yore).

Denny Carter, Henry Farny, New York, 1978, pp. 32 and 192, illustrated in color

The Magazine Antiques, vol. 115, no. 4, New York, April 1979, p. 621, illustrated in color

Peter H. Hassrick, "Henry Farny: The Frenchman Who Went West," The Connoisseur, vol. 206, no. 828, February 1981, New York, p. 124, illustrated in color

"Western Art in the Saddle at White House," U.S. News & World Report, vol. 93, Washington, D.C., 2 August 1982, no. 2, p. 58, illustrated

Katharina Bott, Deutsche Künstler in Amerika, 1813 - 1913, Weimar, 1996, p. 61

David Holloway and John Beck, American Visual Cultures, New York, 2005, p. 24

Exh. Cat., Cincinnati Art Museum, Henry Farny Paints the Far West, October 2007 - January 2008, fig. 23, pp. 33-34, illustrated in color

Elizabeth Anne Spear, History on Stage: Looking Back at The West as America, Master's thesis, Riverside, California, December 2010, pp. 83, 85, and 119

Cincinnati Art Museum, Henry F. Farny and the American Indian, 1943, no. 9

Cincinnati Art Museum, Henry F. Farny: 1847 - 1916, 1965, no. 16, n.p., illustrated

Indiana, University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, The Realistic Expressions of Henry Farny: A Retrospective, May - July 1981, pp. 22-23, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., The White House (on loan), November 1981 - June 1986

National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum, The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820 - 1920, March 1991 - January 1992, no. 295, pp. 311 and 314-15, illustrated