Water Lily with Green and Red Pads

Artist John La Farge (American, 1835 - 1910)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1883

MediumPencil, watercolor, and gouache on heavy wove paper

DimensionsOverall, Image: 5 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (14 × 24.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 11 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (29.8 × 39.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 14 1/2 × 18 1/8 × 1 7/8 in. (36.8 × 46 × 4.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art

Object number2023.4.3

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DescriptionThis is a watercolor painting of a waterlily floating atop the water. The composition does not extend to the top and bottom margins which include stray watercolor marks against the bare paper.
ProvenanceThe artist Gifted from the above to Moritz Bernard Philipp, 1884 James Graham Gallery, New York, by the early 1970s Sold from the above to a private collection, New England, until 2014 The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art, 2022 Exhibition HistoryAnnual Exhibition, Society of American Artists, 1884, no. 54. Catalogue of a Collection of Oil and Water Color Paintings, by John La Farge, Moore’s Art Gallery, New York[?], March 26–27, 1884, lot 49. "A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 8, 2023 — March 10, 2024.Published ReferencesJames Yarnall, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge (New York: The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., 1995), 142, no. 76, illus.