Artist Frank Waller (1842 - 1923)

Harvesting Hops near Cooperstown, New York

Date1884

DimensionsFramed: 42 1/4 × 32 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (107.3 × 82.6 × 11.4 cm) Sight: 29 1/2 × 19 5/8 in. (74.9 × 49.8 cm)

Object numberF0077.1998

Credit LineCollection of Fenimore Farm. Museum Purchase

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextA nineteenth century American painter, educator and etcher, Frank Waller (1842-1923) began his career as a businessman. In 1870, however, he traveled to Rome to study art under John G. Chapman. For the next several years Waller traveled extensively in both Europe and Egypt. Upon his return to the United States he became a founding member of New York's influential Art Students' League (1875) and served as its first president. As well, Frank Waller served as honorary secretary of the Egypt Exploration Fund Society. He was also a noted architect and a Fellow of both the Academy of Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition History“Thomas Cole to Grandma Moses: American Masters,” Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, March 30 – June 2, 2013.

“Lake and Village: Cooperstown's People and Places,” Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, September 27, 2014 – January 14, 2015.
Bibliography"Harper's New Monthly Magazine", LXXI (Oct. 1885), pg. 671, ill. as "Hop Picking"

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