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Henry François Farny

Through the Pass Print by Henry Francois Farny

Through the Pass

His Favorite Wife Print by Henry Farny

His Favorite Wife

On the Firing Line Print by Henry Farny

On the Firing Line

The Song of the Talking Wire Print by Henry Francois Farny

The Song of the Talking Wire

After the hunt Print by Henry Francois Farny

After the hunt

Sioux Indian Print by Henry Francois Farny

Sioux Indian

Council of the Chiefs Print by Henry Francois Farny

Council of the Chiefs

Iron Horse Print by Henry Francois Farny

Iron Horse

Dangerous Ground Print by Henry Francois Farny

Dangerous Ground

The Ford Print by Henry Francois Farny

The Ford

Camp in the Foothills Print by Henry Francois Farny

Camp in the Foothills

Henry Francois Farny

Hunting Camp on the Plains

The Indian Bear Hunter Print by Henry Francois Farny

The Indian Bear Hunter

A Successful Hunt Print by Henry Francois Farny

A Successful Hunt

The Captive Print by Henry Francois Farny

The Captive

Henry Francois Farny

Renegade Apaches

Henry Francois Farny

The Last of the Herd

Henry Francois Farny

The Unwelcome Guests

Henry Francois Farny

The Apache or An Apache warrior

Henry Francois Farny

Scout crow

Henry Francois Farny

Among the foothills

Henry Francois Farny

Departure for the buffalo hunt

Henry Francois Farny

Drawing water

Henry Francois Farny

Fording the stream

Henry Francois Farny

Fort Totten Trail

Henry Francois Farny

Indian Encampent

Henry Francois Farny

Moki Courtship

Henry Francois Farny

Saddling up

Henry Francois Farny

The toilers on the plains

Henry Francois Farny

Through the pass - Winter

Henry Francois Farny

Warrior and teepees

Henry Francois Farny

Zuni watering place

Henry Francois Farny

Indian encampment

Henry Francois Farny

Sioux Chief

Henry Francois Farny

Indian Head

Henry Francois Farny

A lucky shot

Henry Francois Farny

Grinding corn

Henry Francois Farny

Game ahead

Henry Francois Farny

The ambush

Henry Francois Farny

Indian scout

Henry Francois Farny

Père Marquette

Henry Francois Farny

Something Stirring

Henry Francois Farny

Big Game in Sight

Henry Francois Farny

Conspiracy

Henry Francois Farny

Pastures

Henry Francois Farny

The Old Buffalo Trail

Henry Francois Farny

Tachkoniy Comanche Fort Sill

Henry Francois Farny

In Days of Peace

Henry Francois Farny

Apache Scout

Henry Francois Farny

Water Carrier

Henry Francois Farny

Encampment. Winter of 1899

Henry Francois Farny

Indians

Henry Francois Farny

Chief Spotted Tail

Henry Francois Farny

Renegade Apaches

Henry Francois Farny

In Pastures New

Henry Francois Farny

The Boy's Breakfast

Henry Francois Farny

The Truce

Henry Francois Farny

Hunter

Henry Francois Farny

Appeal to the Great Spirit

Henry Francois Farny

Indian returning from the hunt

Henry Francois Farny

Indian scout

Henry Francois Farny

Moqui Indian Snake Dance

Henry Francois Farny

Indian Woman with Papoose

Henry Francois Farny

Indian Marauders in Party

Henry Francois Farny

Pah-Ghee's stratagem

Henry Francois Farny

Indians with Travois

Henry Francois Farny

Got Him

Henry Francois Farny

The Sorcerer

Henry Francois Farny

Sitting Bull

Henry Francois Farny

Indian portrait

Henry Francois Farny

Apache Water Carrier

Henry Francois Farny

Indian on the Move

Henry Francois Farny

Minnechiga Ogalalah Sioux

Henry Francois Farny

Sitting Bull

Henry Francois Farny

Chief Little Bear

Henry Francois Farny

Sitting Bull

Henry Francois Farny

A moment of suspense

Henry Francois Farny

Cheyenne Scout

Henry Francois Farny

Camp sioux

Henry Francois Farny

Swapping Lies

Henry Francois Farny

A rest in the desert

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry Francois Farny

Henry François Farny (15 July 1847 Ribeauvillé - 23 December 1916) was a French-born United States painter and illustrator. His work was centered on the life of Native Americans in the 19th-century United States.[1]

Biography

Farny's family left France in 1853 to emigrate to the United States. The family moved to Warren in Pennsylvania, near a Seneca reservation. Farny was profoundly affected by the Indian civilization he encountered at an early age. Around 1859, the Farny family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Attracted by painting and drawing, the young man became an illustrator for magazines and books for children. When he was 18 years old, Harper's Weekly published a double page view of Cincinnati he made. Between 1867 and 1870 he took private lessons from Albert Bierstadt in Düsseldorf. By the time Farny had arrived at Düsseldorf, and began attending Düsseldorf academy in the late 1860s the Düsseldorf school of painting had already begun to lose its once high acclaim amongst most of the American populace. One part of America where this was not the case was in Cincinnati, Ohio where the realist objectives taught there were still being held in high esteem. Despite this, upon his return to Cincinnati in 1870 Farny who had been studying abroad came home to a minimally responsive demand by Cincinnatians for his paintings, and instead used his new found skills in the service of poster painting and other odd jobs. In 1873 this all changed when he was commissioned by the chamber of commerce to depict in drawing the different stages of pork packing in Cincinnati.

Farny died in Cincinnati in 1916.[2]
Style

Farny who was an erudite scholar, and student of both Munich and Düsseldorf's school's of fine arts, nonetheless, can be seen, from his works of art to have assimilated the Düsseldorf techniques of a drab styled realism into his paintings. In his depictions of the post civil war era and oppression of native Americans at the time, Farny masterfully painted confounding situations, such as a perplexed Indian examining a telephone line. This painting entitled (In song of the Talking wire, a major work of 1904) can be interpreted as 'in the struggle against the white man's technology he must succumb' "John Clubbe". This painting along with one entitled "Morning of a new Day" which shows native Americans on a snowy hill watching a far away train have gained Farny a reputation of practicing the 'vanishing race' style of painting.
Modern Day

Farny art continues to gain in popularity and most serious public as well as private Western art collections include at least on in them. As of recently one of his paintings known as "Southern Plains Indian Warrior" was sold at the Bonhoms art gallery for £224097. more than three times its original estimated value.
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References

Clark, S. J. (1912). Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 449. Retrieved 2013-05-20.

Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Directory, Volume 14. The American Federation of the Arts. p. 322.

Sources

Inventories of American Painting (IAP), Smithsonian Institution Research Information System(SIRIS): http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/aboutari.htm

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