Flowers—Decorative Study

by 1890; reworked 1910

Medium	encaustic on canvas
Dimensions	9 3/8 x 16 15/16 in. (23.8 x 43 cm)
Object Number	1966.10
Acquisition	Gift of L. Bancel La Farge, 1966
Status	Off View

Image Caption

John La Farge, Flowers—Decorative Study, by 1890; reworked 1910, encaustic on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of L Bancel La Farge, 1966.10

Select Bibliography

Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Drawings, Watercolors, and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge on Exhibition and Sale. January 25-February 6, 1890. Gustav Reichard Gallery, New York. Drawings, Water Colors, and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge, N.A.. April 15-May 1, 1890. Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Exhibition and Private Sale of Paintings in Water Color and Oil Chiefly from South Sea Islands. February 14-26, 1896. Macbeth Gallery, New York. Exhibition of Pictures by John La Farge. November 27-December 12, 1907. Poland Spring Art Gallery, South Poland, Maine. 13th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Prominent Artists. 1907. Seattle Fine Arts Association, Seattle, Washington. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by John La Farge, N.A.. January 4-16, 1909. M. Knoedler & Co., New York. Exhibition of Glass, Oil and Water Color Paintings and Sketches by John La Farge, N.A.. February 15-31, 1909. Anderson Art Galleries, New York. Important Paintings by Distinguished Modern Artists from Private Collections. March 8-9, 1910. Vose Galleries, Boston.. Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by the Late John La Farge. Nov. 13-25, 1911. . "Paintings, Sketches, and Studies by John La Farge.". 5.. The Studio (New York).. April 26, 1890. "The La Farge Exhibition." The Art Amateur 23, no. 1 (June 1890): 4. Anonymous. "Art Exhibitions: A Collection of Pictures by Mr. John La Farge." New York Tribune, 4 December 1907. . "John La Farge to Exhibit Here.". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.. Jan. 1, 1909.. Anonymous. "La Farge's Art Studies an Interesting Exhibit." Boston Daily Advertiser 20 March 1909. . "Paintings at Auction.". 8.. American Art Annual.. 1911.. John Nutting.. "In the Art Galleries.". Boston Daily Advertiser.. Nov. 20, 1911.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. 1955-1980: A Twenty-Five Year Report. Clark Art Institute. 1980. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Conrads, Margaret C. American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. La Farge, Henry, Mary La Farge, and James Yarnall. John La Farge: Catalogue Raisonné.. New Haven: Yale University Press..

Provenance

To (Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1907); to the artist; to (Anderson Art Galleries, New York, March 9, 1910, no. 99); to August Jaccaci for the artist; to the estate of John La Farge, 1910; to (Vose Galleries, Boston, April 17, 1912); to Henry Lee Higginson, Boston, April 21, 1914; to Mr. and Mrs. Bancel La Farge, Mount Carmel, Connecticut, by 1919; to L. Bancel La Farge, New York, 1938; gift to Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, June 1966.