Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695
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Museums page for Felix Darley ((1822 - 1888)), known for Illustration, genre, rural views. Showing 20 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1822 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1888 Claymont, Delaware. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
Felix Darley - Artist Info
About Felix Darley: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (20)
All MuseumsBrandywine Museum of Art
One Hoffmans Mill Road
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68102National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS 66045-7500Stark Museum of Art
712 Green Avenue
Orange, TX 77630The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5185University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071Winterthur Museum, Garden,& Library
Route 52 Kennett Pike
Winterthur, DE 19735