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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury
    John La Farge. Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury, 1864. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001133

    Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury

    by John La Farge

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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