A photograph recently acquired by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art shows artist John La Farge at work in his studio on his mural Athens (1898). It is relatively rare to find photographs of American ...
IT is always a delicate task to write an appreciation, for his own countrymen, of the work of any living artist past fifty. Introduction seems unnecessary, if not impertinent, criticism foolish, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Charles Yardley Turner scrapbook of letters from Frederick S. Church and John LaFarge were transferred to the Archives of American Art from ...
Correspondence of John La Farge with author Henry Adams, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, architect Russell Sturgis, Mary Cadwalader Jones (sister-in-law of Edith Wharton), and others, 1850-1910; of ...
It is not often that you find stained glass on the 11th floor of a mid-century skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. The “LaFarge Windows,” housed in the offices of America Media, have little to do with ...
New York Times critic Eve Kahn recovers the remarkable life of Hettie Anderson (1873–1938), the model for the central figure in John La Farge’s mural at the BCMA In the 1890s, a charismatic brunette ...
The language and thought of art historian Katie Kresser are by turns painterly and poetic, then sharply penetrating in their logic and analytic edge. Unlike the rather dry rhetoric one sometimes ...
canvas 107 x 53 cm (42 1/8 x 20 7/8 in.) : 131 x 78 cm (51 5/8 x 30 3/4 in.) ...
We noticed you're using an ad blocker. We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. But advertising revenue helps support our journalism. To read our full stories, please turn ...