Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury by John La Farge
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Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury

John La Farge · 1864

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. With Pierce & Co. Boston, by 1878; sold to Henry Lee Higginson, Boston, 1878; by descent to Alexander Higginson, Boston and England, until 1964; Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1964-68; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York, 1968-69; Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1969-81; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, National Academy of Design, <em>45th Annual Exhibition</em>, 1870, cat. 419, as <em>A Snowy Day</em>.
  • Boston, Pierce & Co., 1878, cat. 4.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, <em>John La Farge Memorial Exhibition</em>, Dec. 1910–Jan. 1911.
  • New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1966, cat. 5, as <em>Snow Landscape with Evergreen Tree</em>.

Literature

Published references

  • National Academy of Design, <em>Catalogue of the Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition</em> exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1870), cat. 419, <em>A Snowy Day</em>.
  • H. Barbara Weinberg, "John La Farge and the Relation of His Illustrations to His Ideal Art," <em>American Art Journal</em> 5 (May 1973): 54–73 (ill.).
  • Richard J. Boyle, <em>American Impressionism</em> (Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1974), 83 (ill.).
  • <em>Annual Report</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1981–82), 25 (ill.).
  • Henry La Farge, "John La Farge and the 1878 Auction of His Works," <em>American Art Journal</em> 15, no. 3 (Summer 1983), 4–34 (ill.).
  • James B. Cuno, <em>Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 85 (ill.).

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