Crater of Kilauea, and the Lava Bed

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Crater of Kilauea, and the Lava Bed

Artist John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)

Date1890

Dimensions12 × 17 7/8 in. (30.5 × 45.4 cm)

Mediumgouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1912.530

Not on View

Published References

La Farge, J., Reminiscences of the South Seas, New York, 1912, p. 48-49, repr. (col.) opp. p. 52.

La Farge, H.,"Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of John La Farge," unpublished MS., no. 90.18.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 72, 74-75, pl. 82.

Hodermarsky, Elisabeth, John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, no. 4, p. 62, fig. 51 (col.) p. 63.

Exhibition History

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings, Mostly Records of Travel, 1886 and 1890-1891, 1895, no. 51.

Boston, Doll and Richards, Paintings in Water Color and Oil from the South Sea Islands and Japan by Mr. John La Farge, 1895, no. 50.

Cleveland, 1896, no. 23.

New York, Montross Gallery, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of Works by John La Farge, 1901, no. 82.

Boston, Doll and Richards, Exhibition and Private Sale of Pictures, Drawings and Sketches by Mr. John La Farge, 1904, no. 77.

Boston, Doll and Richards, Works by John La Farge, 1907, no. 51.

New York, Knoedler, Catalogue of Glass, Oil and Water Color Paintings and Sketches by John La Farge, N.A., 1909, no. 20.

The Toledo Museum of Art, John La Farge Drawings and Watercolors, 1967.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; Washington D.C., National Museum of American Art, John La Farge, 1987-1988, no. 70, repr. p. 57.

Toledo Museum of Art, Transparent Color: Watercolors at the Toledo Museum of Art, May 3 - August 25, 2002. (no cat.)

New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery; Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, Oct. 2010- March 2011.

Toledo Museum of Art, Earthly Beauty, May 29-Sept. 6, 2015.