Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa

Provenance

(Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts); Joshua Montgomery Sears, Boston, Massachusetts, 1898; Mrs. Joshua Montgomery (Sarah Choates) Sears, Boston, Massachusetts, 1905; Mrs. J. D. Cameron (Sarah Sears) Bradley, Boston, Massachusetts, 1934; Dr. WIlliam H. Smith, New York, 1934; (Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1960); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa

La Farge, John

1895-1896

Accession Number

2015.19.966

Medium

watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper mounted to paperboard

Dimensions

board: 38.74 × 58.1 cm (15 1/4 × 22 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)