Looking East in Tautira Village, Tahiti

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Looking East in Tautira Village, Tahiti

Artist John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)

Date1891

Dimensions17 1/2 × 12 in. (44.5 × 30.5 cm)

Mediumwatercolor and gouache on paper

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1912.525

Not on View

Published References

Lee, K. C., "John La Farge, Drawings and Watercolor," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, New Series, XI, Winter 1968, fig. 16.

La Farge, H., "Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of John La Farge," unpublished MS, no. 91.28.

Adams, H., Lettres des mers du sud, 1890-1891, Paris, 1974, fig. 27.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 72, 75, pl. 85.

Mariani, Andrea, "L'artista-scrittore nella cultura americana; da Copley a Vedder," Storia Dell'Arte, no. 50, 1984, p. 69, repr. fig. 17 (after p. 68).

Yarnall, James L., Recreation and Idleness: the Pacific Travels of John La Farge, New York, 1998, pp. 98-99, fig. 127, p. 101.

Exhibition History

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings, Mostly Records of Travel, 1886 and 1890-1891, 1895, no. 182.

Cleveland, Gallery of the Picture Exhibition Society, Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings by John La Farge, 1896, no. 57.

New York, Montross, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of Works by John La Farge, 1901, no. 53.

Boston, Doll and Richards, Exhibition and Private Sale of Pictures, Drawings and Sketches by Mr. John La Farge, 1904, no. 6.

Boston, Doll and Richards, Works by John La Farge, 1907, no. 153.

New York, Knoedler, Catalogue of Glass, Oil and Water Color Paintings and Sketches by John La Farge, N.A., 1909, no. 67.

New York, Anderson Galleries, 1910, no. 90.

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

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware. 1976.

Salem (MA), Peabody Museum, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by John La Farge (1835-1910) From His Travels in the South Seas, 1890-1891, 1978, no. 39.

Toledo Museum of Art, Transparent Color, May 3 - August 25, 2002.

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