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Exhibition History“Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art,” Fenimore Art Museum, August, 23 – December 31, 2008; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, January 25 – April 18, 2010, no cat. no.
BibliographyMacleish, Bruce A., “Paintings in the New York State Historical Association,” in Antiques (September, 1984), p. 597, Pl. XII, ill.
Weinberg, Barbara, The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers (New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1991), p 63, Pl. 69, ill.
Mueller, Kristen, “Provincial Vistas,” in Heritage, vol. 16 no. 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 6, 7, ill.
Conforti, Michael, Ganz, James A. et al., The Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings (exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 330, fig. 290, no. 171, ill.
Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan and Aimonovitch, Mary C., Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art (exh. cat. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2008), pp. 40, 41, ill.
Artist
Edward Lamson Henry
(1841 - 1919)
Sharpening The Saw
Date1887
MediumOil on wood
DimensionsSight: 26 1/4 × 22 in. (66.7 × 55.9 cm)
Object numberN0423.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextE. L. Henry is one of the foremost American genre painters. Henry grew up in New York City and studied painting in both Europe and the United States. He specialized in recreations of rural and town scenes of everyday life. Many of his works, including Sharpening the Saw, were derived from the surrounding life and people in his summer home of Cragsmoor, New York. The old man depicted here resembles his summer neighbor Thomas Botsford, an individual Henry painted on several occasions.Exhibition History“Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art,” Fenimore Art Museum, August, 23 – December 31, 2008; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, January 25 – April 18, 2010, no cat. no.
BibliographyMacleish, Bruce A., “Paintings in the New York State Historical Association,” in Antiques (September, 1984), p. 597, Pl. XII, ill.
Weinberg, Barbara, The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers (New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1991), p 63, Pl. 69, ill.
Mueller, Kristen, “Provincial Vistas,” in Heritage, vol. 16 no. 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 6, 7, ill.
Conforti, Michael, Ganz, James A. et al., The Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings (exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 330, fig. 290, no. 171, ill.
Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan and Aimonovitch, Mary C., Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art (exh. cat. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2008), pp. 40, 41, ill.
On View
On viewc. 1885-1887
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