Jules Tavernier (painter)

Newspaper sketch of Jules Tavernier from the San Francisco Sunday Call, April 6, 1911.
Memorial to Jules Tavernier by members of the Bohemian Club, Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu

Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) was a French painter, illustrator, and an important member of Hawaii’s Volcano School.

He was born April 27, 1844, in Paris. 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 Paul Frenzeny, on a year-long coast-to-coast sketching tour in 1873.[1] 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 May 18, 1889, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

His students included D. Howard Hitchcock (1861–1943), Amédée Joullin (1862–1917), Charles Rollo Peters (1862–1917) and Manuel Valencia (1856–1935). Among the public collections holding paintings by Jules Tavernier are the Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Provo, UT), the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (Colorado Springs, CO), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento), the Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK), Hearst Art Gallery (Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE), the Oakland Museum of California, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Stark Museum of Art (Orange, TX), the Society of California Pioneers (San Francisco, CA), the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, MD) and the Yosemite Museum (Yosemite National Park).

In 2014 the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California 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 will then move to the Monterey Museum of Art.[2][3]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Chalmers, Claudine, Scott A. Shields, and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., Jules Tavernier, Artist & Adventurer, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, Oregon, 2014, p. 28
  2. ↑ Christopher Reynolds, "In Sacramento and Monterey, a pioneer painter gets his due", Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Victoria Dalkey, "Art: Crocker exhibit devoted to works of Jules Tavernier", Sacramento Bee, February 20, 2014.

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