File:'A Balloon in Mid-Air' by Jules Tavernier, 1875.jpg
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Jules Tavernier: A Balloon in Mid-Air
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A Balloon in Mid-Air |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quoting/paraphrasing from the References: After leaving Nebraska, Tavernier journeyed through Utah and continued to San Francisco where he reconnected with Frenzeny. San Francisco society lauded the artists as celebrities, and the two were among the earliest illustrator-painters inducted into the newly formed Bohemian Club (est. 1872). On September 9, 1874, in front of a cheering crowd at the Gardens, they accepted the opportunity to ascend in Etienne Buislay’s hot-air balloon Sierra Nevada. The ascent was a disaster. The balloon crashed on takeoff into a roof and chimney, landing on an outhouse, and one of the occupants, a newspaper editor, suffered a broken arm. Undaunted, and with crowds in attendance, the two thrill-seeking artists later made a successful flight, although the balloon was blown over to the East Bay, in the company of Monsieur Buislay on October 4, 1874. The painting A Balloon in Mid-Air (1875) resulted from this experience. |
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| Date | 1875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 76.2 cm (30 in); width: 127 cm (50 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Private collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Signature and date bottom left: Jules Tavernier San Francisco / 1875
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Scott A. Shields; Claudine Chalmers (Summer-Fall 2014). Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer 3. California Art Club Newsletter. Retrieved on November 29, 2017. Claudine Chalmers (2013) "San Francisco Summer 1874: On Top Of The World" in Chronicling the West for Harper's: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873–1874, The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West Series, 12, University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 195–197 Retrieved on November 29, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-80-614376-7. OCLC: 830992700. If consecutive pages can't be read online using the Chronicling ... URL, replace 195 in it with the page you want to read, and use that for that page. |
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| Source/Photographer | the-athenaeum.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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