Artist

John La Farge

born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910
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John La Farge, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001833
Also known as
  • John Lewis Frederick Joseph La Farge
Born
New York, New York, United States
Died
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Active in
  • Newport, Rhode Island, United States
  • Middletown, Paradise, Rhode Island, United States
Biography

Painter, stained glass designer. Among his many commissions, decoration of the Trinity Church in Boston placed La Farge at the forefront of the American Arts and Crafts movement. He early admired the formality and patterning of Japanese art, and he recored his impressions of his travels in Asia in An Artist's Letters from Japan (1897).

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (11 items)

John La Farge, Peacocks and Peonies I, 1882, stained glass window, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Henry A. La Farge, 1936.12.1
Peacocks and Peonies I
Date1882
stained glass window
On view
Apollo with Cupids, 1880-1882, banded African mahogany, repoussé bronze, colored marbles, mother-of-pearl, abalone shell, and ivory relief, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of James Maroney and museum purchase, 1990.106
Apollo with Cupids
Date1880-1882
banded African mahogany, repoussé bronze, colored marbles, mother-of-pearl, abalone shell, and ivory relief
On view
John La Farge, Peacocks and Peonies II, 1882, stained glass window, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Henry A. La Farge, 1936.12.2
Peacocks and Peonies II
Date1882
stained glass window
On view
John La Farge, Wreath of Flowers, 1866, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.68
Wreath of Flowers
Date1866
oil on canvas
On view

Exhibitions

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Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
November 21, 2008May 24, 2009
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum is the first in a series of special installations that celebrate the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper.
A painting of a woman sitting down and reading 'Le Figaro'
Special Installation of Nineteen American Masterworks
April 17, 2015August 16, 2015
Integrated within the chronological flow of the museum’s permanent collection, these masterworks from Gilded Age, Impressionist, and Ashcan School painters will help to tell the story of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries in America, a “coming