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Edward Troye
American, 1808–1874
Kentucky Woodpecker
1834
Image Caption
Edward Troye, Kentucky Woodpecker, 1834, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.878
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
22 1/2 x 27 9/16 in. (57.2 x 70 cm)
Object Number
1955.878
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Seventeen: Sporting Paintings.. August 1961.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Kurata, Saburo. Fine Arts of the World. Tokyo: Orion, 1980. Mackay-Smith, Alexander. The Race Horses of America, 1832-1872: Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye. Saratoga Springs (NY): The National Museum of Racing. 1981. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Conrads, Margaret C. American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lacer, Genevieve Baird. Edward Troye: Painter of Thoroughbred Stories. Kentucky: Harmony House Publishers. 2006.
Provenance
To Ralph B. Tarlton, Scott County, Kentucky; (art market, New Orleans, early 1920s);* (Harlow, McDonald and Co., New York); to Robert Sterling Clark, February 4, 1930.