Henry Farny

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Henry Farny (right) with Frank Duveneck in 1874

Obsidian mountain in the Yellowstone, 1897

Henry François Farny (15 July 1847 Ribeauvillé - 23 December 1916) was a French-born United States painter and illustrator. His work was centered on the life of Native Americans in the 19th century United States.

Biography

Farny's family left France in 1853 to emigrate to the United States. The family moved to Warren in Pennsylvania, near an Seneca reservation. Farny was profoundly affected by the Indian civilization he encountered at an early age. Around 1859, the Farny family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Attracted by painting and drawing, the young man became an illustrator for magazines and books for children. When he was 18 years old, Harper's Weekly published a double page view of Cincinnati he made. Between 1867 and 1870 he took private lessons from Albert Bierstadt in Düsseldorf.

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