Andrew John Henry Way

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and still life. Works named in the authority record are Bunch of Grapes. Work by Andrew John Henry Way is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum.

• Italic Title — no • Title — Bunch of Grapes • Medium — Oil on Canvas • Artist — Andrew John Henry Way • Year — 1873 • Height Metric — 105.4 • Width Metric — 91.4 • City — Baltimore • Museum — The Walters Art Museum

Way studied with artists John P. Frankenstein and Alfred J. Miller in the U.S. In 1850 he went to Europe and studied in both Paris and Florence. In 1859 he gained the attention of Emanuel Leutze and thereafter changed his focus to still life painting instead of portraits. In 1876, Way received a medal for excellence at the Centennial Exposition. In 1866, the art collector William Thompson Walters acquired property on Woodburne Ave near Govanstown (later became Saint Mary's). Walters was interested in growing grapes, and hired Andrew John Henry Way to paint a cluster of Prince Albert grapes. The painting, Bunch of Grapes, is currently on view at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. A private scrapbook of Way's, housed at the South Carolina Historical Society, includes clippings from Baltimore newspapers about the Southern artist William Aiken Walker. Walker was known for painting African Americans after the Civil War. Way also completed small paintings of African Americans.