A Boy and His Dog (Dickey Hunt)
American (1835-1910)
A Boy and His Dog (Dickey Hunt), 1868 -1869
Oil on canvas, 40 x 34 inches
Provenance
Albert Stickney, New York, 1884 (?) – 1908
Mrs. Albert Stickney, New York, 1908-1911
J.G. Butler, Jr., Youngstown, Ohio, 1912(?) – 1923
Edwin C. Shaw, Akron, Ohio, 1923 -1941
Caroline Shaw, Akron, Ohio, 1941-1955
The Estates of James A. & Dorothy C. Vaughn, Sea Island, Georgia, 1955 – 2008
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, 1874, as Portrait, no. 72
Chicago (probably), Inter-State Industrial Exposition, 1875, no. 23, as Portrait
Philadelphia, International Exhibition, 1876, Official Catalogue, Department IV, Part II, as Portrait – Boy and Dog, no. 417
Boston, Pierce & Co., 1878, 2nd day, as 1869, A Boy and His Dog, no. 12
New York, Society of American Artists, 1880, no. 58, as Portrait-Boy and Dog
Munich, Internationalen Kunstausstellung im Königliche Glaspalaste in Munchen, 1883, no. 1130, as Portrait
New York, Ortgies & Co., 1884, no. 24, as Portrait of Boy and Dog
Boston, Vose Gallery, 1911, no. 97, as A Boy and His Dog (Dickey Hunt)
San Francisco, Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915, vol. 1, p. 201, as Portrait of Richard Hunt, no. 2674
Akron, Ohio, Akron Art Museum, The Edwin C. Shaw Collection of American Impressionist and Tonalist Paintings, 19 April-29 June 1986.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Museum of Art, Science and Industry, American Artist’s Abroad: Painting In the European Style, 27 September – 9 November, 1986.
Pittsburg, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Boston, Museum of Fine Art, John La Farge, July 1987-April 1988
Boston, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Courbet: Mapping Realism, September 1 – December 8, 2013
Newport, Rhode Island, Newport Art Museum and Art Association, Very Simple Charm: The Early Life and Work of Richard Morris Hunt in Newport, 1868-1878, May 31 – September 14, 2014
Literature
Robinson, William. The Edwin C. Shaw Collection of American Impressionist and Tonalist Paintings, Akron Art Museum, 1986, pg. 80-81, illustrated
Yarnall, James L., A Beautiful Child and a Portrait Commission Gone Awry: The William Morris Hunts and John La Farge, American Art Journal, vol. 29, 1998, p. 86-96
Essays by Adams, Henry, Foster, Kathleen A., La Farge, Henry A.,
Weinberg, H. Barbara, Wren, Linnea H., & Yarnall, James L., Abbeville Press Publishers, 1987, p. 92-93, illustrated as A Boy and His Dog, p. 93
The Art News, Collector Acquires Three Paintings by American Masters, Including John La Farge’s “Dicky Hunt,” 31 March 1923, vol. XXI, no. 25-Weekly, p.1
James L. Yarnall, Very Simple Charm: The Early Life and Work of Richard Morris Hunt in Newport, 1868-1878, Newport Art Museum and Art Association, pg. 20-29, fig. I, as titled
Note
This work is to be included in forthcoming catalogue raisonne by Henry La Farge, Mary A. La Farge & James Yarnall, cat. no. P1869.4.