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Paul Frénzeny began to work with Jules Tavernier in 1873 (33) when they began to jointly create pictures for Harper's Weekly. Toward the end of that year they went off on a year long assignment from Harper's to draw and send back pictures of the American West. This assignment which took the two of them from New York, through Pennsylvania, down to Missouri. They apparently crossed the Mississippi river at Hannibal, Missouri. From Hannibal, the pair traveled on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway across Missouri to Fort Scott and Parsons, Kansas. They proceeded on the same railroad across Indian territory to Denison, Tex., the terminus of the railroad. Construction of this line from, Hannibal to Denison had been completed only a few months before the arrival of Frénzeny and Tavernier. After their visit at Denison, the artists turned northward across the Indian territory and eventually reached Wichita-probably accompanying a cattle drive at least part of the way. From Wichita the general route was west along the Santa Fe Railroad through southern and western Kansas to the railroad terminus at Granada, Colorado. By stage they then traveled to Pueblo, Colorado, and then by rail to Denver. They remained in Denver during the winter of 1873-1874. It is possible that they took a side trip into the Southwest at this point, perhaps to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Then in the Spring they visited Fort Laramie in Wyoming territory, the Red Cloud Agency in Nebraska. And finally they used the Union Pacific Railroad to get to San Francisco with a stop in Salt Lake City for a couple of weeks.. It is not known how they worked together on a picture. Nor how they split the payments from Harper's. On the trip they produced 67 published Harper's Weekly woodcuts for which they were paid from $35 to $150 each depending on the size of printed image. They also sold sketches to local people. Paul Frénzeny may have gone on ahead of Tavernier after Salt Lake City because the newly created Bohemian Club of San Francisco welcomed Paul, and voted him into membership on 4 August 1874, a month before Jules was made a member. This chronology of the western travels of Frénzeny/Tavernier is based on the reconstruction of the trip by Robert Taft described in the Kansas Historical Quarterly "The Pictorial Record of the Old West" February, 1946 (Vol. 14 No. 1). See the map below. The pair stayed on the West Coast for several years. Paul stayed in
San Francisco about 5 years then drifted down to Los Angeles, then through
Mexico and Central America, then back up to New York. He continued to
work for Harper's until the mid 1880s when he joined Bill Cody's
Wild West Show; he eventually left the show in London and worked for The
London Graphic. Paul died in London in 1902. Travenier gave up illustration as a career and moved into the production of fine art. He stayed about ten years on the West Coast, was active in the artistic life of San Francisco. He left for Hawaii in 1884, where he died in 1889. |
Joint Woodcuts Before the Western Trip |
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Spring |
Circus Coming to Town |
Temperance Industry and Happyness pub: J ref |
A. Gault: |
This map is based on Robert Taft's reconstrution of their journey.
It is possible that duing the winter while they were staying in Denver,
that they took a side trip to Santa Fe, New Mexixo
or other places in the SouthWest (See The Watch for Montazuma
below).
The map itself is a Railroad Map from 1883, ten years after
F/T made the trip.
Frénzeny and Tavernier Woodcuts
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New York |
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An Emigrants' Boarding House in New York |
The Emigrant Wagon— On the Way To the Railway Station |
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Pittsburgh |
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Manufacture of Iron — Filling the Furnace |
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Manufacture of Iron — Carting away the Scoriæ |
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Manufacture of Iron — Tapping the Furnace |
Coal Miner's Secret Meeting
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Ft. Scott and Parsons Kansas |
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Leaf from a Westen Sketchbook
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In the Emigrant Train
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Scenes From Emigrant Life |
Switched Off |
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Building the Log Cabin |
Laying the Fences |
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Denison TexasThe Oklahoma/Indian Territory Border and the end of the Railway |
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United States Signal Service— |
In the Indian Territory
Harper's Weekly |
Vigilance Court in Session |
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An Oasis Along the Track Shows a mule-powered pump at a lone way station, storing water in a reservoir for future train use. |
Arkansas Pilgrims |
Arkansas Pilgrims in Camp |
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A Freshet in the Red River, Texas |
Sugar-Making in Texas |
A Deer Drive in the Texas ‘Cross-Timber’ |
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A Saturday Noon in a Southwestern Town |
The Texas Cattle Trade — Guarding the Herd |
Calling the Night Guard — Interior of Bunk House |
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First Bale of the |
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Wichita |
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Wichita and The Texas Cattle Trade
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A Prairie Wind-Storm |
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Fighting the Fire |
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A Kansas Land-Office
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Limestone in Kansas |
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SouthWest Kansas |
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‘Busted!’—A Deserted Railroad Town
in Kansas [Probably: Zarah, Barton County Kansas] |
Curing Hides and Bones |
Slaughtered For the Hide |
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An Under-Ground Village Pub: KSHS Quarterly Febuary 1946 cover. |
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Colorado Territory |
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Throwing Out the Mail |
Staging
in the Far West
Harper's Weekly v18 4 July 1874 p. 556. |
Taking the Morning “Slumgullion” Slumgullion was western slang for tea. |
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Calling For the Relays |
Home Station on the Plains |
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Smelting Oar in Colorado Harper's Weekly
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Gold and Silver Mining, Colorado— |
Mining in Colorado— |
On the Way To New Diggings-Halt in a Rough Pass of
the Rocky Mountains |
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Irrigation in Colorado-Letting Water Into a Side
Sluice-Way
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A Bear Hunt in the Rocky Mountains |
Returning To Camp From a Bear-Hunt
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Shooting Antelopes From
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Trout-Hatching in Colorado |
A Bird Colony [Swallows] on Lake St. Mary |
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Denver |
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View of Denver from the Highlands The water color was offered for sale at $250 and was on exhibition at "Richards and Co.'s." "The blue of the mountains is most artistically rendered, while Denver is given the air of a metropolis," reports another Denver paper at the time. |
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The Watch for Montazuma The setting for this picture gives rise to speculation that during the winter in Denver that Frénzeny and Tavernier traveled to the SouthWest by train. Tavernier did this pictures as a painting and there is another painting by Tavernier with a SouthWest setting. Other than these pictures there no evidence that they did so. |
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Wyoming and Nebraska |
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Driven From Their Homes— |
An Indian Agency-Distributing Rations |
Indian Sun Dance — |
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| The original Sioux Sun Dance sketch made by Frénzeny and Tavernier in 1874 was in the possession of "Deejay" Mackart of San Francisco as late as 1892. Its present location, if still in existence, is unknown. | ||||
Salt Lake City |
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Mormons at the Communion Table [unsigned, unattributed..*] |
Brigham Young's Wives in the Great Mormon Tabernacle [unsigned, unattributed *] |
Quarrying Stone for the New Mormon Temple |
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Reading a Ukase in a Mormon Settlement |
Mormondom — Bringing a Fresh Supply of Wives
to the Settlement |
Bringing Home the Fifth Wife |
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Indians Trading at a Frontier Town |
Two Bits To See the Pappoose [probably Ogden Utah ]
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Camel Train in Nevada [This was published after they had split up. It was published with only Frenzeny's name and the Tavernier credit deleted from the signature in the wood block. The original credits have been reinserted. Tavernier probably did not get any money for this picture.] |
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San Francisco |
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Chinese Fishermen in San Francisco Bay |
Sketches in
Harper's Weekly
v19 |
The Suburbs of
Harper's Weekly v19 |
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| * Note: Robert Taft assigned the authorship, but there is some question about it. Both of these pictures required either great imagination or inside access to Mormon activities. Harper's Weekly was anti-Mormon. The reason neither picture was signed nor attributed was because anyone inside the church who was conspiring with Harper's Weekly was likely to suffer in one way or another. This was, after all, comspiring with the enemy. I doubt that JT and PF had the access to make the pictures. Taft's reasoning that they were the only Harper's artists in the area, is very weak. It only took about a week to get there by train from the East Coast. And it only takes one disenchanted Mormon artist to do these pictures for Harper's. Harper's could well have used an artist church member from one of the other Mormon splinter groups, which hated Brigham Young and considered the Utah church as apostate, and smuggled him into the Utah church as a spy. |
Jules Tavernier Gallery Summary Biography and Selected Paintings.
Jules Tavernier Catalog Picture Summary, Biography, and Bibliography
Part 1 Jules Tavernier Catalog France, London, and New York Periods
Part 2 Frénzeny-Tavernier Western Trip Catalog The Road West (This Gallery)
Part 3 Jules Tavernier Catalog First San Francisco and Monterey Periods
Part 4 Jules Tavernier Catalog Second San Francisco and Hawaii Periods
Paul Frénzeny Gallery Summary Biography and Selected Paintings.
Part 1 Paul Frénzeny: The First New York Period.
Part 2 Frénzeny-Tavernier Western Trip Catalog (This Gallery)
Part 3 Paul Frénzeny: West-Coast Period
Part 4 Paul Frénzeny: Second New York and London Periods.
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