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JOHN LA FARGE

American, 1835-1910

Kilauea and Crater Basin, Noon. Heavy Clouds, 1890

watercolor on paper
inscribed and dated below the composition in the artist's hand: "Kilauea, Hawaii / noon, Sept. / heavy clouds, crater basin / (black lava shining) / for all is shown from upper / clouds which come down on both / sides. Cone becomes just / visible through stream"
5 x 8 in. (12.7 x 20.3 cm.) (sight), Frame: 11 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (27.9 x 36.2 x 3.8 cm.)

  • Provenance: Edward William Hooper, Boston, until his death in 1901; To his daughter, Mrs. Greely S. (Fanny Hooper) Curtis, Boston, 1901 until her death in 1963; To her son, Greely S. Curtis, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963 until his death in 1980; Private Collection, New Hampshire; Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut and New York, New York; Private Collection, New York
  • Exhibited: Paris, Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, "Études, esquisses, dessins, Souvenirs et notes de voyage (1886 et 1890-91) par John La Farge", April 24 - May 1895, no. 54, p. 12; Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards Gallery, "Exhibition and Private Sale of Paintings in Watercolor and Oil from the South Sea Islands and Japan by Mr. John La Farge", February 1895, cat. no. 54.
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