Category: Insights or Questions

One of Farny painting that reached new eyes is the 1892 painting “Mountain Trail“. This painting was featured in a… read more 1892: Mountain Trail Painting

Farny’s Suspicious Guests was published in the February 05, 1887, issue, of Harper’s Weekly, pages 96-97. I have yet to… read more 1887-02: Farny’s Suspicious Guests Vs. Unwelcome Guests

In 1893, Farny lent a painting called With the Pony Herds to 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. It appears that painting… read more 1892: Indian Encampment Vs. With the Pony Herds

The March 14, 1893, issue of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette featured an extensive biography of Farny and included the image… read more 1890: ‘The Apaches are Out’, ‘In Arizona’, or ‘Through the Pass’?

In 1901, Farny completed “Pastures New“. In 1969, this painting was stolen from a home in Indian Hill. An attempt… read more 1901: “New Pastures” Painting Stolen in 1969

In 1896, Farny completed Return of the War Party, which showed an Indian war party traveling along a river. The… read more 1896: Return of the War Party; River Bends

The 1884 book of Eclectic’s Primary History of the United State included a sketch showing an Indian against a steep… read more 1884: Sketch & Paintings of Indian w/gun against rock

The Blanton Museum at the University of Texas has, amongst its collection of Farnys, a painting he completed in 1889… read more 1889: Peace Be With You Vs. 1886 Early Sketch

In 1906, the Cincinnati Art Museum held its annual art exhibit. Included in that exhibit was Farny’s The Coming of… read more 1906: The Coming of the Fire Horse

A Clevelander by birth, Frank Wiborg moved to Cincinnati, attending high school at the Chickering Scientific and Classical Institute. In… read more 1898-1900: The End of the Monarch Paintings

In early February 1895, a group of friends, acquaintances of Farny, met to ponder two paintings recently completed by Farny,… read more 1895: The Big Chief and The Medicine Man

On December 15, 1883, Harpers Weekly published an illustration by Farny captioned with the name A Dance of Crow Indians…. read more 1883: Indian Fire Dance Vs. A Dance of Crow Indians

In the December 25, 1881, issue of the Cincinnati Commercial, a reporter mentioned he’d spotted Farny, likely a day or… read more 1881-12: “Silence” & “Early Moon” Painting

I’ve read about Henry Farny caricaturing Jefferson Davis in 1865 with a sketch that went “viral” in its day, but… read more 1865: “Confederacy in Petticoats”?

Farny unveiled his first Indian-themed work titled Indian Graves (by a newspaper) in October of 1877. The painting followed a… read more 1877-10: “Indian Graves”

A November 25, 1879, report in The Cincinnati Commercial, page 8, noted that Farny was working on a painting he… read more 1879-11: “Field Mice” Painting (1880’s Landscape with Children?)