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A Sunset in Wyoming
Jules Tavernier American, born France
Not on view
According to the Honolulu newspaper Daily Pacific Commercial Advertiser, this is the last painting Tavernier completed. Executed in his studio in Hilo, Hawai‘i, shortly before his untimely death, it was based on earlier sketches from his travels across the West and "aided by memory." The Native American encampment on the open plains, cast in the glow of the setting sun may be a romanticized allusion to the drastically reduced presence of Native peoples on their homelands, and perhaps a nod to the artist’s own impending death.
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