JOHN LA FARGE 1835-1910 SNOW. SKETCH: HILLSIDE WITH CEDARS. EVENING. Measurements: 12in. by 9.25in. Alternate Measurements: (30.5 by 23.6 cm) oil on panel Painted in 1873. We are grateful to Dr. James L. Yarnall for his assistance in cataloguing this work. This painting is framed in a Walfred Thulin frame inscribed with the Thulin monogram and dated 1922. Provenance: Sale: Leonard's Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, December 18-9, 1879, 28 Edward Bangs, Boston, Massachusetts (acquired at the above sale) Mrs. Jere Abbott (his sister), Boston, Massachusetts, 1894 Mrs. Edith Bangs (her niece), Boston, Massachusetts, 1926 Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1959 (acquired from the above) J. William Middendorf, Jr., New York, 1959 (acquired from the above) Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1963 (acquired from the above) Acquired from the above, 1963 Exhibited: Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, La Farge Memorial Exhibition, January 1911 Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, March-October 1935 (on loan) Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 6, p. 13, illustrated Literature and References: Elizabeth Hutcheson Carrell, John La Farge: Renaissance Spirit in America, M.A. Thesis, Austin, Texas, University of Texas, 1972, no. 118, p. 29, illustrated Patricia Joan Lefor, John La Farge and Japan: An Instance of Oriental Influence in American Art, Ph.D. Dissertation, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, 1978, pp. 61, 63 Margaret La Farge Hamill, The Gold Rush of 1898 and Other Reminiscences by O.H.P. La Farge ( 1869-1936), Princeton, New Jersey, 1990, p. 88