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Two women dressed in ancient robes stand separately in arched frames.

The younger woman on the left (Ruth) turns from behind looking towards the upper right, her face and side of neck are posed in three-quarter view. She is illuminated from the upper right. Her right arm is by her side, she’s dressed in sleeveless light green and purple robes. The woman on the right (Naomi) faces left, her face in profile, the front of her body turns towards us. Her right arm holds the hooded garment over her head. Both have a plain blue background with a yellow boarder, there’s a blue circle with yellow boarder above them.　

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.308
People
John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
Title
Ruth and Naomi, Study for a Window, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1904
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307924

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and chalk over graphite on off-white illustration board
Dimensions
21.7 x 15.6 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Frame [ ] / 6 x 8 / 4-- / [numbers, illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John La Farge estate sale, New York; purchased at that sale by Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1911; their sale through Martin Birnbaum to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1929; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.308
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henry A. La Farge, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge, Unpublished (n.d.), card 185
  • "The La Farge Exhibition", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, February 21, 1907), p. 12, The Fine Arts section, p. 12
  • "La Farge's Watercolors and Glass Work", Boston Evening Transcript, Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, March 19, 1910), part 2: p. 6., The Fine Arts section, p. 6
  • Ann Hamilton Sayre, "The Complete Work of John La Farge at the Metropolitan", Art News (March 28, 1936), pp. 5-6, 12, pp. 5-6, 10
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of John La Farge, exh. cat., Blanchard Press, Inc. (New York, NY, 1936), no. 69, reproduced in b/w
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 242
  • 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. 211, cat. no. 162, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Works by John La Farge, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 02/21/1907 - 03/05/1907
  • Exhibition of Pictures by John La Farge, William Macbeth Gallery, New York, 11/27/1907 - 12/12/1907
  • Paintings and Drawings by John La Farge, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 03/18/1910 - 03/30/1910
  • Stained Glass Exhibition, Original Windows, Designs, Cartoons, Drawings of Medieval Windows, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 11/13/1922 - 12/16/1922
  • Watercolors, Stained Glass, and Oil Paintings by John La Farge, Ferargil Galleries, New York, 02/01/1923 - 02/28/1923
  • Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 05/26/1923 - 07/31/1923
  • 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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