The Thirsty Drover
Framed: 36 1/4 x 45 3/16 x 3 1/4 inches (92.08 x 114.78 x 8.26 cm)
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Thirty-first Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, March 14– May 10, 1856, no. 31.
Life in America for Three Hundred Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 24, 1939–January 1, 1940, no. 126.
Horse and Rider, Fort Worth Art Center, January 7–March 3, 1957.
Nineteenth Century American Painting, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., February 17–March 31, 1974, no cat.
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., December 2, 1977–January 22, 1978, no. 70.
Life in 19th Century America, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Ill., September 11–November 15, 1981, no. 23.
Genre, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., April 5–May 15, 1983, no. 39.
Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840–1910, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y., May 18– November 30, 1986 (traveled), no. 21.
Francis W. Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, January 9–June 19, 1988 (traveled), unnumbered.
Francis William Edmonds, who helped pioneer the banking industry at the same time he worked as a painter, was heavily influenced by Dutch 17th-century painting. He appropriated from the Dutch the shallow stage-like space, strong diagonals, few figures and a palette of primary colors. Additionally, such carefully painted details as the hen and chicks, laundry in the baskets and flowerpot on the windowsill that add a domestic air to the scene are also characteristic of Netherlandish painting.
Augustus F. DeForest, New York, by 1932;
to (Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1932);
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1933.
“Domestic Art Gossip,” Crayon 3 (March 1856), 91.
“Topics Astir,” Home Journal (New York), April 5, 1856, 2.
“The National Academy of Design—No. 2,” New York Evening Post, April 7, 1856, 2.
“The National Academy of Design (2nd Article),” New York Tribune, April 12, 1856, 4.
“Domestic Art Gossip,” Crayon 3 (May 1856), 147.
Catalogue of the Thirty-first Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: National Academy of Design, 1856), 14.
Thomas S. Cummings, Historic Annals of the National Academy of Design (Philadelphia: George W. Childs Publishing, 1865), 320.
“The Acquisitions,” Art Digest 8 (December 1, 1933), 21.
“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings,” Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28.
Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 137.
“Art,” Kansas City Star, August 30, 1936, 10A.
“The American Scene in Art,” New York Times, April 23, 1939, 116.
Life in America for Three Hundred Years, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1939), 92–94.
Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826–1860 (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1943), 144.
Horse and Rider, exh. cat. (Fort Worth: Fort Worth Art Center, 1957), 11.
Maybelle Mann, “Francis William Edmonds,” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1972.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 175, 251.
Maybelle Mann, Francis William Edmonds (Richmond, Va.: W. M. Brown & Son, 1975), 53.
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1977), no. 70.
Maybelle Mann, “The New York Gallery of Fine Arts: A Source of Refinement,” American Art Journal 11 (January 1979), 76–86.
Maybelle Mann, “Humor and Philosophy in the Paintings of Francis William Edmonds,” Antiques 106 (November 1979), 862–70.
Francis William Edmonds, “The Leading Incidents and Dates of My Life,” American Art Journal 13 (Autumn 1981), 4–10.
Life in 19th Century America, exh. cat. (Evanston, Ill.: Terra Museum of American Art, 1981), 13.
H. Nichols B. Clark, “A Fresh Look at the Art of Francis W. Edmonds: Dutch Sources and American Meanings,” American Art Journal (Summer 1982), 73–94.
Ross E. Taggart, “American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri,” Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1034.
Genre, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 16, 29.
Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840–1910, exh. cat. (Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum, 1986), 16, 21.
H. Nichols B. Clark, Francis W. Edmonds:
American Master in the Dutch Tradition, exh. cat. (Fort Worth: Amon Carter
Museum, 1988), 14, 19–23, 45–47, 56, 112–15.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 68.
Marilyn Wood Hill, “Francis W. Edmonds: Artist, Banker, Gentleman Farmer,” Bronxville Journal 1 (2001), 33–57, cover.
