Jules Tavernier (27 April 1844 – 18 May 1889) was a French painter, illustrator, and an important member of Hawaii’s

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Life and career

He was born on 27 April 1844 in

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. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias (1822–1907), but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was employed as an illustrator by '' Harper's Magazine'', which sent him, along with

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, on a year-long coast-to-coast sketching tour in 1873. He arrived in San Francisco in the summer of 1874, but soon traveled south and founded an art colony on the Monterey Peninsula. Eventually, he continued westward to Hawaii, where he made a name for himself as a landscape painter. He was fascinated by Hawaii’s erupting volcanoes—a subject that was to pre-occupy him for the rest of his life, which was spent in Hawaii, Canada, and the western United States. Tavernier died on 18 May 1889 in

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, Hawaii. His students included

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(1862–1917) and Manuel Valencia (1856–1935). Among the public collections holding paintings by Jules Tavernier are the

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(Colorado Springs, CO),

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(Sacramento),

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(Tulsa, OK), Hearst Art Gallery (

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, Isaacs Art Center (Kamuela, HI),

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(Orange, TX),

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(Hagerstown, MD), and

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(

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). In 2014 the

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held an exhibition of more than 100 works by Tavernier, the first career retrospective of his work, accompanied by a catalog entitled ''Jules Tavernier: Artist & Adventurer''. After the Crocker, the exhibition moved to the Monterey Museum of Art.

Gallery

File:Tavernier Kilauea By Moonlight.jpg, ''Kilauea by Moonlight,'' 1889, oil on canvas, Isaacs Art Center File:Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) - 'Volcano at Night', ca. 1880s, oil on canvas, 19 x 36 in.jpg, ''Volcano at Night'', late 1880s, oil on canvas,

File:Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) - 'Wailuku Falls, Hilo', c. 1886, Pastel on paper.jpg, ''Wailuku Falls, Hilo'', c. 1886, pastel on paper,

File:Jules Tavernier - 'Sunrise Over Diamond Head', oil on canvas, 1888, Honolulu Academy of Arts.jpg, ''Sunrise Over Diamond Head'', 1888, oil on canvas,

File:Jules Tavernier - Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma.jpg, ''Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma'', early 1880s, oil on canvas,

, Sacramento, California File:'White Man's Weapon' by Jules Tavernier, 1880.jpg, ''White Man's Weapon'', 1880, oil on canvas,

, Orange, Texas File:'The Pioneer' by Jules Tavernier, 1877, oil on canvas.jpg, ''The Pioneer'', 1877, oil on canvas,

Footnotes

References

* Chalmers, Claudine, Scott A. Shields, and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., ''Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer'', Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 2013, * Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 95-209. * Maier, Steven, ''Jules Tavernier: Hawaii’s First Real Painter'', ''Honolulu'', Nov. 1996, 80. * McGlynn, Betty Hoag, "Jules Tavernier, 1844-1889" in Tanner, Jerré E., ''Hawaii Island Artists and Friends of the Arts'', premiere ed., Malama Arts Inc., Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 1989, , pp. 13–19

External links

Tigertail Virtual Museum
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