DARLEY “FINDINGS” ON THE WEB

LISTED BY "CATEGORY" AND CHRONOLOGICALLY
WITHIN THAT (ie., order "found")
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INDEX:

1. FENIMORE COOPER “SITES” & INFO.
2. AUTHORS WHOSE WORKS (at least 1) WERE DONE BY DARLEY
3. MORE ACCOLADES
4. BOOKS ABOUT DARLEY &/or CONTAINING HIS DRAWINGS
5. CIVIL WAR ILLUSTRATIONS … “STAND ALONE
6. CITY LIFE DRAWINGS
7. WESTERN DRAWINGS
8. REVOLUTIONARY WAR DRAWINGS
9. GEORGE WASHINGTON DRAWINGS
10. DARLEY FAMILY MEMBERS INFO
11. MISC. ART / DRAWINGS, MOSTLY FOUND ON THE WEB

(1) FENIMORE COOPER “SITES”:

Darley and other artists doing Cooper’s works: GO THERE

(2) AUTHORS WHOSE WORKS (at least 1) WERE DONE BY DARLEY

In addition to the KEY authors listed on page one of this Darley Web Site … Irving, Cooper, Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, there are:
• John Greenlief Whitaker,
• James Whitcomb Riley

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(3) MORE ACCOLADES FOR DARLEY

• ”Winslow Homer acknowledged that Darley's success gave him hope that he might also have a career as an artist.” Spaightwood Galleries, GO THERE

(4) BOOKS ABOUT DARLEY &/or CONTAINING HIS DRAWINGS … partial list (This is a “growing” list as the webmaster finds them)

• American Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of the University of Kansas Art Museum (Lawrence: University of Kansas Art Museum, 1973; includes six drawings by Darley);
• "...illustrated by Darley"; An Exhibition of Original Drawings by the American Book Illustrator (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1978; exhibition of 152 oringal drawings);
• Ethel King, ,Illustrated by F.O.C.Darley The Most Popular Illustrator of His Time (Brooklyn NY: Gaus, 1964;
• Felix O. C. Darley Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil (NY: Hurd & Houghton, 1869; this book illustrates and describes a European trip taken by the artist between June 1867 and June 1868. He visited England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Italy. Printed at the Riverside Press. Illustrated by Darley);
• John S. Abbott, The History of the Civil War in America; Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion of the Various Naval and Military Engagements Illustrated with Maps, Diagrams, and Numerous Steel Engravings of Battle Scenes from Original Designs By Darley and Other Eminent Artists and Portraits of Distinguished Men, 2 vols. (NY: Henry Bill, 1866);
• J. T. Trowbridge, The Vagabonds, Illustrated by F. O. C. Darley (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883);
• J.Fenimore Cooper's Sea Tales Illus.by F.O.C.Darley (NY: D.Appleton and Co, 1881);
• Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley (NY: George P. Putnam 1848);
• Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Illustrated by Felix O. C. Darley (NY: American Art - Union, 1848)
• Pioneers in the Settlement of America: From Florida in 1510 to California in 1849, Two Volumes, William A[ugustus, 1819 - 1906] Crafts, Samuel Walker and Company, Boston, 11 1/2" height X 9" width, leather bound hardcover. Volume I, 500 pages (495 plus index), 1876.
• a Legend of Rockland Lake. Found Amongst the Papers of the Late Ernest Helfenstein. GO THERE E. Oakes Smith [F.O.C. Darley]. New York: John S. Taylor, 1851. 149 pages. Second Edition.

(5) DARLEY MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM APPLETON’S JOURNAL:
• “Clearing a Jam Among Logs” Description: (Maine). Clearing a Jam Among Logs. A dramatic black and white steel engraving by A.V. Baulch, after a drawing by the renowned F.O.C. Darley, from Appleton’s Journal. Ten lumberjacks, wielding axes and peaveys, struggle heroically to free the log jam. Scarce. 8.5x6. N.Y., dated 1869 but published 1/29/1887

FROM “HARPERS MAGAZINE” GO THERE

(6) CIVIL WAR ILLUSTRATIONS … “STAND ALONE”

(11) MISC. DARLEY ART

• NUDE SITTING BY A RIVER (a watercolor) GO THERE

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