The King of the Montauks, 1880

  • Edward Lamson Henry, American, 1841-1919

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 11 1/2 × 16 inches (29.2 × 40.6 cm)
  • 17 5/8 × 22 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (44.8 × 56.2 × 7.9 cm)

Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

47.37

Signed and dated, lower right: E L Henry, 80

Inscribed, lower right: E L Henry, 80 | East Hampton LI

Baruch Feldman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). Thompson Galleries (Detroit, Michigan, USA). 1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Klackner, C. Reproductions of the Work or E L Henry. 1906, no 50. [This may be the same painting, but it is not illustrated] Oils and Watercolors by Edward Lamson Henry. Exh. cat., Century Association. New York, 1942, no. 22. Mc Causland, E. Life and Work of Edward Lamson Henry. Exh. cat., New York Public Library, New York State Museum. New York, 1945, p. 292, no. A-143. Romantic America. Exh. cat., Art Association of the John Herron Institute. Indianapolis, 1961, no. 23. Murphy, Robert Cushman. Fish-Shape Paumanok, Nature and Man on Long Island. New York, 1964, p. 30.

Edward Lamson Henry, The King of the Montauks, 1880, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 47.37.