
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001133Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
New York, National Academy of Design, 45th Annual Exhibition, 1870, cat. 419, as A Snowy Day. Boston, Pierce & Co., 1878, cat. 4. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, John La Farge Memorial Exhibition, Dec. 1910–Jan. 1911. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1966, cat. 5, as Snow Landscape with Evergreen Tree.
Publications
National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1870), cat. 419, A Snowy Day. H. Barbara Weinberg, "John La Farge and the Relation of His Illustrations to His Ideal Art," American Art Journal 5 (May 1973): 54–73 (ill.). Richard J. Boyle, American Impressionism (Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1974), 83 (ill.). Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 1981–82), 25 (ill.). Henry La Farge, "John La Farge and the 1878 Auction of His Works," American Art Journal 15, no. 3 (Summer 1983), 4–34 (ill.). James B. Cuno, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 85 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil on beveled mahogany panel
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 25.1 cm (12 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Roxbury
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Frank L. Sulzberger in memory of Mr. Frank L. Sulzberger
- Accession no.
- 1981.287
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