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Artist or Maker: John La Farge (1835-1910)
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Provenance: Mr. Cook, 1878.
Sale: Leonard's Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 18-19 December 1879.
John Chandler Bancroft, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1879.
Wilder D. Bancroft, Ithaca, New York, 1901.
Estate of Wilder D. Bancroft, 1953.
Plaza Galleries, New York, 16 September 1954, lot 115.
Victor Spark, New York, 1954.
Private collection, New York, 1957-94.
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Exhibited: New York, Society of American Artists, Catalogue of the First Exhibition, Society of American Artists at Kurtz Gallery, March 6-April 5, 1878, no. 63 (as Wild Roses).
Boston, Massachusetts, Pierce and Company, The Paintings of Mr. John La Farge, To be Sold at Auction, November 19-20, 1878, no. 9 (as Wild Roses).
Boston, Massachusetts, Leonard's Gallery, The Drawings, Water-Colors and Oil Paintings by John La Farge, December 18-19, 1879, no. 17.
New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, April 28-June 9, 1995.
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, American Beauty: The Rose in American Art, 1800-1920, May 20-July 18, 1997.
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Literature: "The Society of American Artists," New York Evening Mail, New York, March 5, 1878, p. 4.
"The Society of American Artists," New York World, March 30, 1878, p. 4.
"Art and Artists," Boston Evening Transcript, November 21, 1878, p. 6.
"Sale of Mr. La Farge's Paintings," Boston Daily Advertiser, November 21, 1878, p. 2.
"The La Farge Collection," Boston Daily Globe, November 21, 1878, p. 4.
"The La Farge Paintings," Boston Post, November 22, 1878, p. 3.
C.E. Clement and L. Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, Boston, Massachusetts, 1879, p. 30.
B. Weber, American Paintings VII, New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, 1994, p. 34, illustrated.
J. Yarnall, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, New York, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1995, pp. 38, 125, no. 30, illustrated.
B. Weber, American Beauty: The Rose in American Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, 1997, pp. 15, 48, 110, pl. 18, illustrated.
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Notes: PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION
The present work is one of only two flower paintings that were included in the major sale of La Farge's work held at Pierce and Company in Boston in 1878. The sale included pictures that La Farge regarded to be his best available works and Wild Roses and Grape Vine is indicative of the richly textured works emphasizing beauty, fragility and transience created at this time.
