Category: 1890s

In March 1893 The Women’s Columbia Exhibition Association (WCEA) held a fundraiser to earn money for their upcoming 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Exhibit. The asked Henry Farny to arrange a…

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, Arizona, was a forty-page book. written by C. A. Higgins that describes a trip into the canyon. Farny, Thomas Moran, and F. H….

Mary Elise Thalheimer wrote the New Eclectic History of the United States, to which Farny contributed some illustrations. The originals of some of these are located at the Syracuse University…

William Dean Howells wrote A Boys Town that was published as a serial by Harper’s Young People between April 08, 1890, and August 26, 1890. There were twenty images total…

In 1890, Henry Farny moved to Covington where he could escape the city and focus more on painting, as visitors often disrupted him in his 4th floor studio at Pike’s…

Though an art jurist and participant at the 1893 Chicago World’s fair, Farny still had time to explore the grounds. Among his favorite places to visit was a Bedouin camp,…

Farny visited The Annual Pageant of the Satellites of Mercury at Louisville, from which he drew a cover illustration for the October 11, 1890, issue of Harper’s Weekly:

On the night of March 27, 1890, a tornado hit Louisville. Farny must have immediately headed south to sketch the damage for Harper’s Weekly. The magazine published his drawings, titling…

Farny’s sketches over pages 220-221 for the March 22, 1890, issue of the Harper’s Weekly accompany a page 223 story on the terrain and challenges facing those still traveling West…

Published February 14, 1891, Farny’s The Last Scene of the Last Act of the Sioux War can be found on page 120 of Harper’s Weekly. Whether this work was a…

The 1884 book of Eclectic’s Primary History of the United State included a sketch showing an Indian against a steep rock, gun in hand. Farny would later repeat this theme…

On September 17, 1889, Harper’s Young Magazine began publishing a Serialize story by William Stoddard called Red Mustang, A Story of the Mexican Border. Farny illustrated one image per magazine…

In Harper’s Weekly July 24, 1886, Farny’s illustration A Cheyenne Courtship made the cover. It can be viewed below: In 1892, Farny created a very similar, more refined painting of…

A Clevelander by birth, Frank Wiborg moved to Cincinnati, attending high school at the Chickering Scientific and Classical Institute. In 1878, he co-launched, with Levi Ault, Ault & Wiborg, a…

In early February 1895, a group of friends, acquaintances of Farny, met to ponder two paintings recently completed by Farny, one titled The Big Chief and the other The Medicine…

William Henry Withrow’s book The Native Races of North America was published in 1895 and included two images by Farny. However, both images had been previous used thirteen years earlier…

In either 1891 or 1892 Farny painted a picture showing two men navigating a river in canoes, with a man in a primitive shelter watching from the shore. Of note…

In 1924, Allan Collier of the Proctor-Collier Advertising company showed the Cincinnati Literary Club two examples of ads created by Farny for the company. Farny was paid $25 each for…