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James Cafferty

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James Henry Cafferty (1819 - 1869) was active/lived in New York.  James Cafferty is known for Genre, landscape, and portrait painting, book illustration.

James Cafferty, a portrait, landscape and genre painter and book illustrator, was prominent in New York City academic circles.  By 1939, he was working in the city as a sign painter, and in 1841 he was enrolled in the National Academy of Design* in the Antique class.  In 1843, he was beginning several decades of participation in the Academy annual exhibition.  Until the 1850s, most of his entries were landscapes, but during the last decade of his life, he focused on still life, many of them with fish and game subjects.  From 1857 to 1858, he served on the National Academy Council.

In 1843, he was elected vice-president of the New York Sketch Club.  To support his painting during the mid 19th century, he sold art supplies.  Also the American Art Union* purchased many of his landscape paintings for their annual lottery sales exhibition.  However, when he died, it was apparent that he was not financially successful as the National Academy Council   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4829 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  24
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Cafferty
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction The Quiet Americans November 2000 Wallis, Stephen Yes
24 Book References for James Cafferty
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Weber, Bruce The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1988 Chambers, Bruce Old Money 0 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper II
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1986 Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 U S National Capital S C American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
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