Preparing to Fish (Boys Fishing)
James Henry Cafferty, American, 1819 - 1869
about 1846
Oil on canvas
Overall: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.7 × 40.7 cm)
Frame: 23 3/16 × 19 1/4 in. (58.9 × 48.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frank P. Stetz in memory of David Stewart Hull, Class of 1960
P.2004.83.12
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
[none]
Course History
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 12, 2021.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, April 1944-January 1948 [on loan from owner Joseph Katz]
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-December 12, 2005.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 21, 2006-May 8, 2007.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart et al., Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, pp. 26, ill. p. 27, cat. no. 4.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 41, no. 22.
David Stewart Hull, James Henry Cafferty, N.A.(1819-1869), New-York Historical Society, New York, 1986, illus. p.16.
Herman Warner Williams, Mirror to the American Past, Greenwich, Connecticut.: New York Graphic Society, 1973, p. 176. [referred to as Boys Fishing]
Provenance
American Art Union, New York, New York., 1846; Charles P. Marks, New York, New York.; Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York; Grant Jacks, New York, New York; RCA Corporate Collection, New York, New York; Christies Sale, New York, May 26, 1988, Lot 3; sold to David Stewart Hull, New York, New York, 1988; bequeathed to Frank P. Stetz, New York, New York, 1998; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hull no. 26 (page 47 in catalogue raisonné section of David Stuart Hull, James Henry Cafferty, N.A. (1818-1869), New-York Historical Society, New York, 1986).
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