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Object Number

1942.60

People

John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)

Title

Buttresses of the First Christian Church, and Siga's Tomb at Sapapali, Samoa

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1890

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307836

Medium

Watercolor on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

21 x 32.7 cm (8 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: left of image, graphite, in artist's hand: reef line
• label: l.l.c., paper: 104
• inscription: l.l., under image, graphite, in artist's hand: Late evening / Sapapali / Savai'i / Samoa / Oct 26 90
• inscription: lower center, under image, graphite, in artist's hand: Tide coming in, almost full / The stones in foreground are the edges of / coral cement platform anchor for a church by Malietoa Laupepa [Laupepa was a chief]
• inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Siga's Tomb / under water
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: [Image of stone tablet with a raised shield with lion rampant, helmet at l.r.] Grenville / Lindall / Winthrop
• stamp: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, black ink: [stamped:] WM; [handwritten:] 8015
• gallery label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: [printed in blue ink:] Paintings by American Artists / William Macbeth / Incorporated / 11 East 57th Street New York / [handwritten in black ink:] Buttresses of the First Christian / Church at Sapapali, Samoa / John La Farge
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: Special Loan Exhibition of Works of John La Farge, S.L. no. 2522.3
• inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: Buttresses of the First Christian Church / Sapapali Samoa 1890 / Also the Tomb of Siga in / the Reef-- covered at high tide / John LaFarge 1890 / from nature [under this, in black ink: The above is in La Farge's / handwriting.]

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.60

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Henry A. La Farge, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge, Unpublished (n.d.), card 266

John La Farge, Reminiscences of the South Seas, JLF KPI Ltd. (Garden City, NY, 1912), p. 198, ill., opp.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of John La Farge, exh. cat., Blanchard Press, Inc. (New York, NY, 1936), no. 54, reproduced in b/w

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 200-01, cat. no. 153, reproduced in b&w

Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings, Mostly Records of Travel 1886 and 1890 - 91 by John La Farge, Durand-Ruel [New York], New York, 02/25/1895 - 03/25/1895; Durand-Ruel Paris, Paris, 03/31/1895 - 04/30/1895

Exhibition of Glass, Oil and Water Color Paintings and Sketches by John La Farge, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 02/15/1909 - 02/28/1909

Catalogue of Oil and Water Color Paintings and Sketches by John La Farge, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 03/18/1909 - 04/01/1909

An Exhibition of the Work of John La Farge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/23/1936 - 04/26/1936

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