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Felix Darley

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Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822 - 1888) was active/lived in Delaware, New York.  Felix Darley is known for Illustration, genre, rural views.

Born in 1821 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Felix Darley "can well be considered America's first important illustrator." (Reed 17) He was self taught and highly prolific during a long career that included being a newspaper staff artist, illustrator for book publishers and for famous authors including Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow and James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens.

With illustrations for these writers, Felix Darley popularized such American icons as the Pilgrim, the Pioneer, the Minuteman and the Yankee Peddler. Western art collectors covet his illustrations depicting the settling of the West, the early life on the plains, the Indians, the white settlers, trappers, and hunters. He was especially adept at portraying the dramatic action of the Indian buffalo hunt.

Darley's fame was so great while he was alive that many books were advertised as "illustrated by Darley". His talent was that of bringing life to the scene,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5793 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  84
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Felix Darley
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Merchandising America September 2004 McIntosh, DeCourcy E No
American Art Review American Masters: The John Wilmerdi April 2004 Kelly, Franklin Yes
American Art Review American Dreams-Warner Collection December 1997 Curry, David Park Yes
84 Book References for Felix Darley
Year Author Title Pages Color
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Kelly, Franklin American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
1995 Barnhill, Georgia B Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper 99 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1994 Simpson, Marc The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 315 Yes
1994 Tyler, Ron Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress 197 Yes
1994 Wilmerding, John The Artist's Mount Desert American Painters on the Maine Coast 195 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Fryd, Vivien Green Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860 273 No
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1991 Gilbert Anne American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide 1991 Yes
1991 Howat, John K (foreward) American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art 204 Yes
1991 University Gallery-Delaware Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 161 Yes
1990 Boime, Albert The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century 256 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Bloch, E Maurice Faces and Figures in American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1988 Danly, Susan American Drawings and Watercolors From the Huntington Collections 42 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 McCracken, Harold Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West 232 No
1987 Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints 192 Yes
1986 Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds Winter
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)		 314 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1983 Moritz, Albert F America the Picturesque In Nineteenth Century Engraving 167 No
1982 Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher Legacy of the West 157 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Ballinger, James K Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen
(Exhibition catalog)		 182 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1978 Richards, Jane L American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1977 Shackelford, George T M Nineteenth-Century American Print From the Dartmouth College Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 No
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Riggs, Timothy A The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876 95 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Frontier America/The Far West
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1968 Pitz, Henry C The Brandywine Tradition 252 Yes
1968 Wunderlich, Rudolf (Introduction), American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part Two The Nineteenth Century:1825-1890, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 76 No
1967 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Paintings for Public and Private Collections 52 Yes
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1964 King, Ethel Darley The Most Popular Illustrator of His Time 156 No
1961 Dorra, Henri American Muse, The 163 Yes
1961 Hofer, Philip The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1896 Toppan, Robert N.A. A Hundred Years of Banknote Engraving in the United States 0 Yes
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