Sports in American Public Spaces - Fishing in 19C America

Fishing in 19th-century America

1847 James Goodwyn Clonney (English-born American artist, 1812-1867) The Happy Moment

William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) Woman Eel Spearing at Setauket Fishing Along the Shore 1845

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) Fishing on Long Island Sound off New Rochelle

 1849 William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857)  First Fish of the Season

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) What a Catch

 1851 James Goodwyn Clonney (English-born American artist, 1812-1867) Waking Up

Bass Fishing, Currier and Ives

1854 Trout Fishing Currier and Ives

1855 William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857)  Boys Crabbing

1856 Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (American artist, 1819-1905) from American Winter Sports. Trout Fishing On Chateaugay Lake (Franklin Co. N. Y.). New York,  N. Currier

1862 Brook Trout Fishing - An Anxious Moment

1870 Edwin Forbes (American artist, 1839-1895) Raking for Clams, Prince's Bay.

1870 Last Fish of the Season

Blue Fishing, Currier and Ives

Albert Bierstadt (German-born American artist, 1830-1902)  Fishing from a Canoe 1859

Albert Bierstadt (German-born American artist, 1830-1902)  Fishing on the Northwest Coast  c 1889

Thomas Eakins (American artist, 1844–1916), Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River 1881

Albert Bierstadt (German-born American artist, 1830-1902)  Salmon Fishing on the Cascapediac River

Childe Hassam (American artist, 1859-1935) Fishing - 1896

Albert Bierstadt (German-born American artist, 1830-1902)  Indians Fishing

1871 Trout Fishing in the Mountains of Virginia. Published by Every Saturday

1872 Dredging-boats in the Chesapeake. Harper's Weekly, New York.

 1872 Pickerel Fishing. Currier and Ives

F. Vance  An Old Mill in Wyoming Valley.

1874 Charles Osborne Pickerel Fishing Through the Ice. Harper's Weekly.

1880 M. Burns Oystering on the Chesapeake. Working the Beds off Annapolis.

1883 Maine- on the Megalloway - A Lesson in Fly-Fishing. Published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

1887 Scene on the Fishing-Banks off Seabright, New Jersey. - A Chip of the Old Block. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York.

1888 Frederic Remington (American artist, 1861-1909),  Her First Muskallonge.

1889 Henry Sandham (North American artist, 1842-1910) Fishing for Salmon Published by Bradlee Whidden, Boston.

John George Brown (American genre painter, 1831-1913)   Cleaning Fish

 Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier View on the Harlem River NY with the High Bridge in the Distance 1852

William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857)  The Lazy Fisherman

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Trolling for Blue Fish 1866

George Caleb Bingham (American genre painter, 1811-1879) Fishing on the Mississippi

Unidentified American artist, River Landing 1855

Lorus Bishop Pratt (American painter, 1855-1923) Fishing Along the Cache River

Theodore Robinson (American artist, 1852-1896) Boy in a Boat Fishing

Lorus Bishop Pratt (American painter, 1855-1923) Fishing along the Jordan

Frank Weston Benson (American, 1862-1951) Salmon Fishing

 John Singer Sargent On His Holidays

 Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (American artist, 1810 – 1885) A Days Sport at Blooming Grove Park

 Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (American artist, 1810 – 1885) A Fishing Party off Long Island

 Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (American artist, 1810 – 1885) Fishing in a Catboat in Great South Bay, 1871

 Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (American artist, 1810 – 1885) The Old, Old Story

Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns) (American artist, 1810 – 1885) Trout Fishing