Christmas Sports in America, Shooting Turkeys
Artist: Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Not on display
Century: 19th Century AD
Media: Watercolor And Graphite On Wove Paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 275 x 350 mm (10 13/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Department: Achenbach Foundation
Object Type: Drawing
Country: United States
Continent: North America
Provenance: David David Gallery, Philadelphia, sold to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York 7/67 (letter of 9/14/90 from M.P. Naud to former AFGA intern Jennifer Jaskowiak, returned to AFGA 10/95 after publication of FAMSF catalogue); Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York ( see typed carbon entry of catalogue (listed below) from Rockefeller collection records with notation of January 1968 purchase, and cropped entry from catalogue with graphite notes, reputedly in E.P. Richardson’s hand “ $32.500. As good example of watercolor before Homer as will find.”]; Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1968-1979);
Accession Number: 1979.7.33
Acquisition Date: 1979-04-05
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Exhibition History: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York,American Paintings for Public and Private Collections, Dec. 4,1967-Jan. 13, 1968, no. 44,repr.;
FAMSF, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum (also Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City) :American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 1976. Exh. cat. by E.P. Richardson (not in catalogue);
FAMSF, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum: The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 25 June - 13 Nov 1994, exh. cat. by Marc Simpson and Patricia Junker, cat. no. 63, p. 163, repr. p. 164.
de Young, As the Days Grow Shorter: A Winter Celebration, Nov 4, 1981 - Jan 17, 1982.
de Young, Novelty and Nostalgia: American Drawings from the Rockefeller Collection, - 23 April 2006.
Men and boys in a country setting by an inn and stable, one man seen from rear, aiming gun at a distant spot, others waiting with long guns, one spectator on horseback, dead turkey in foreground.
de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco