Art, literature & history
Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa
1895-1896
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.966
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John La Farge. Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa. John La Farge; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_La_Farge,_Girl_in_Bow_of_Canoe_Spreading_Out_Her_Loin-Cloth_for_a_Sail,_Samoa,_1895-1896,_NGA_194635.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa — John La Farge. 1895-1896.
Medium: watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper mounted to paperboard.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): board: 38.74 × 58.1 cm (15 1/4 × 22 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.966. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1960).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.