:Jules Tavernier (painter)

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| name = Jules Tavernier

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| caption = Newspaper sketch of Jules Tavernier from the San Francisco Sunday Call, 6 April 1911

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1844|4|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1889|5|18|1844|4|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Honolulu, Hawaii

| nationality = French

| known_for = Painting

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| movement = Volcano School

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Jules Tavernier (27 April 1844 – 18 May 1889) was a French painter, illustrator, and member of Hawaii’s Volcano School.

Life and career

Tavernier was born on 27 April 1844 in Paris. He studied with French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias, 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.Chalmers, Claudine, Scott A. Shields, and Alfred C. Harrison Jr. (2013). Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California. {{ISBN|9780764966859}} He arrived in San Francisco in the summer of 1874, but soon traveled south and founded an art colony on the Monterey Peninsula.Crocker Art Museum, "Marin Sunset, Back of Petaluma" panel, Sacramento, California, n.d. In 1874, Tavernier came upon the tavern owned by his compatriot Jules Simoneau. Briefly, he established a studio at the Girandin Hotel (now called Stevenson House). In November 1875, Tavernier, alongside Walter Paris, leased space on Alvarado Street, establishing the first dedicated artist studio in Monterey. Tavernier's connection with Monterey led to his marriage to Lizzie Fulton in San Francisco in February 1877, whom he initially met in Monterey in 1876.{{cite web|url=http://pineconearchive.fileburstcdn.com/231110PC.pdf|title=New Book Fills In Some Old Blanks In Monterey's History|publisher=The Carmel Pine Cone|place=Carmel-by-the-Sea, California|date=10 November 2023|access-date=13 November 2023}} Eventually, he continued westward to Hawaii, where he worked 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 from alcoholism on 18 May 1889 in Honolulu, Hawaii.Shields, Scott A. (2006). "A New Eden: Jules Tavernier and the Beginning of Monterey's Art Colony". Artists at Continent’s End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony 1875-1907. University of California Press. pp. 11-37. {{ISBN|9780520247390}}. {{OCLC|920748853}}.

Image:OahuCemetery-Tavernier-monument.JPG

Tavernier's students included D. Howard Hitchcock, Amédée Joullin, Charles Rollo Peters and Manuel Valencia.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

Public collections holding paintings by Tavernier include the Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Provo, Utah), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (Colorado Springs, Colorado), Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento), Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Hearst Art Gallery (Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California), Honolulu Museum of Art, Isaacs Art Center (Kamuela, Hawaii), Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, Nebraska), Oakland Museum of California, San Diego Museum of Art, Stark Museum of Art (Orange, Texas), Society of California Pioneers (San Francisco, California), Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, Maryland), and Yosemite Museum (Yosemite National Park).{{cn|date=November 2023}}

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 moved to the Monterey Museum of Art.{{cite web|author=Christopher Reynolds|url=http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-in-sacramento-monterey-pioneer-painter-tavernier-20140317,0,6599106.story#axzz2wLKavK15|title=In Sacramento and Monterey, a pioneer painter gets his due|work=Los Angeles Times|date=18 March 2014}}{{cite web|author=Victoria Dalkey|date=20 February 2014|title=Art: Crocker exhibit devoted to works of Jules Tavernier|url=http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/20/6171785/art-crocker-exhibit-devoted-to.html%7C|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318224401/http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/20/6171785/art-crocker-exhibit-devoted-to.html%7C|archive-date=18 March 2014|work=Sacramento Bee}}

Selected works

File:'The Pioneer' by Jules Tavernier, 1877, oil on canvas.jpg|The Pioneer, 1877, oil on canvas, Society of California Pioneers

File:'White Man's Weapon' by Jules Tavernier, 1880.jpg|White Man's Weapon, 1880, oil on canvas, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas

File:Jules Tavernier - Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma.jpg|Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma, early 1880s, oil on canvas, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

File:'Maui Sugar Plantation' by Jules Tavernier, 1885.jpg|Maui Sugar Plantation, 1885, oil on wood panel

File:Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) - 'Wailuku Falls, Hilo', c. 1886, Pastel on paper.jpg|Wailuku Falls, Hilo, c. 1886, pastel on paper, Honolulu Museum of Art

File:Jules Tavernier - 'Sunrise Over Diamond Head', oil on canvas, 1888, Honolulu Academy of Arts.jpg|Sunrise Over Diamond Head, 1888, oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art

File:Tavernier Kilauea By Moonlight.jpg|Kilauea by Moonlight, 1889, oil on canvas, Isaacs Art Center

File:Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) - 'Volcano at Night', ca. 1880s, oil on canvas, 19 x 36 in.jpg|Volcano at Night, late 1880s, oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art

References

Sources

Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 95-209.
Maier, Steven, Jules Tavernier: Hawai{{okina}}i’s First Real Painter, Honolulu, Nov. 1996, 80.
McGlynn, Betty Hoag, "Jules Tavernier, 1844-1889" in Tanner, Jerré E., Hawaii Island Artists and Friends of the Arts, premiere ed., Malama Arts Inc., Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 1989, {{ISBN|0931909066}}, pp. 13–19