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)

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