About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items A picture no artist can paint

A picture no artist can paint

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Music Division

  • The importance and propriety of a better system of musical education
  • La cambiale di matrimonio
  • In love, if love be love : Vivian's song
  • Juvenile songs, religious, moral, and sentimental
  • The Giants of 1908
  • Octandre
  • Trois caprices pour le violon, op. 20
  • Stage coach
  • Sonata for viola and piano
  • Collection of organ music, chiefly fugues
  • The Horace Greeley campaign songster
  • Pièces de clavecin
  • Hayes & Wheeler song book
  • The Jubilee Songs, chorusses, &c.;
  • Commonplace book of songs
Previous Next

COLLECTION
American popular songs

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Sheet music, 1899

View as book

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
A picture no artist can paint
Additional title: A quaint New England homestead where a grey-haired couple dwell. [first line of song]
Additional title: Picture a home in New England town, picture the ivy creeping 'round. [first line of chorus]
Names
Kohler and Hoon (Singer)
Starmer (Cover designer)
Helf, J. Fred (Composer)
Helf, J. Fred (Lyricist)
Collection

American popular songs

Sheet music, 1899

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1899 (Inferred)
Place: New York
Publisher: Hylands Spencer & Yeager; Feist & Frankenthaler
Library locations
Music Division
Topics
Songs
Family reunions
Depression (Mental state)
Runaway children
Broken homes
Desertion
Genres
Scores
Notes
Content: Cover design includes photograph of Kohler and Hoon.
Content: Summary: An elderly couple's daughter has run away, and they are depressed; the son goes in search of the daughter, and the parents are even more depressed; the son returns home with the daughter to a happy reunion.
Content: Cover design by Starmer shows a drawing in the upper right of an elderly couple with sad faces seated in a wooded area; in the lower left the elderly couple embrace their children.
Statement of responsibility: words and music by J. Fred. Helf.
Date: Copyright dates: 1899, 1900
Physical Description
Extent: 6 p. ; 36 cm.
Type of Resource
Notated music
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10826013
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21736880
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21738653
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6b328b70-c595-012f-ab14-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1899: Issued
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "A picture no artist can paint" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1899. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/95a9be73-055b-baba-e040-e00a18063a25

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "A picture no artist can paint" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 29, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/95a9be73-055b-baba-e040-e00a18063a25

APA Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1899). A picture no artist can paint Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/95a9be73-055b-baba-e040-e00a18063a25

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/95a9be73-055b-baba-e040-e00a18063a25 | title= (notated music) A picture no artist can paint, (1899) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 29, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

A picture no artist can paint