John La Farge

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, New York

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

M. Knoedler and Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1950)

J. William Middendorf II and Isabelle Paine Middendorf, Greenwich, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 1961)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 21 May 1970, lot 36 (consigned by the above)

Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Clark (acquired by 1987)

Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York (acquired by 1998)

Private Collection, Virginia (probably acquired from the above by 2010)

Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation, Virginia (acquired as a gift from the above by 2019)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

New York, Durand-Ruel, Paintings, Studies, Sketches, and Drawings: Records of Travel, 1895, no. 128

New York, Montross Gallery, 1901, no. 43 (titled Standing Dance of a Game of Ball)

Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting from 1860 Until Today, 1937, no. 118, pp. 30-31 (titled Dancing Natives)

New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Americans Abroad, 1954, no. 27

New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Impressionist Mood in American Painting, 1959, no. 57 (titled Dancers and Musicians)

New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, A Change of Sky: Paintings by Americans Who Have Worked Abroad, 1960, no. 54, illustrated (titled Dancers and Musicians)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America: An Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society, 1966-67, no. 63, p. 16 (titled Standing Dance Representing a Game of Ball)

Baltimore Museum of Art and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Paintings & Historical Prints from the Middendorf Collection, 1967, no. 34, p. 48

New York, Kennedy Galleries, American Masters: 18th and 19th Centuries, 1972, no. 55, p. 58, illustrated

New York, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, The Grand Game of Baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1987, no. 2, illustrated in color (titled Standing Dance Representing the Game of Ball)

New York, Vance Jordan Fine Art, Recreation and Idleness: The Pacific Travels of John La Farge, 1998, pp. 85 and 87, fig. 110, illustrated in color

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery and Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, 2010-11, no. 11, pp. 21-22 and 211, fig. 22, illustrated in color

John La Farge, Reminiscences of the South Sea, New York, 1916, p. 256, illustrated (titled Two Taupos Dancing a "Game of Ball." Samoa)

Frank Jewett Mather, "The Expanding Arena," Magazine of Art, vol. 39, no. 7, November 1946, p. 296, illustrated (titled Dancers and Musicians)