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The Last Sight of Tahiti: Trade Winds, (painting). Artist:  La Farge, John, 1835-1910, painter. Title:  The Last Sight of Tahiti: Trade Winds, (painting). Medium:  Watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff wove paper. Dimensions:  8 3/4 x 16 5/8 in. (22.2 x 42.2 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) June 7, 91 (Inscribed verso:) No. 21 / The Last Sight of Tahiti. Trade Winds unsigned Subject:  Landscape -- Coast Landscape -- Tropic Landscape -- Polynesia -- Tahiti Landscape -- Mountain -- Aorai Mountain Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 Accession Number: 1939.52 Provenance:  Gift of Woodward, Samuel B., Dr., Worcester, Massachusetts 1939. Acquired from Doll and Richards Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts 1896. References:  Owner, 1975. Strickler, Susan E., ed., "American Traditions in Watercolor," New York: Abbeville Press, (Worcester Art Museum), 1987. Acton, David, "Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Worcester Museum of Art, 1998, pg. 237. Illustration:  Strickler, Susan E., ed., "American Traditions in Watercolor," New York: Abbeville Press, (Worcester Art Museum), 1987, pg. 81. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 23570306   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 23570306 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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