A look back at the Second Vatican Council through the coverage offered by America and Commonweal offers two lessons: First, ...

The Worcester Art Museum rolls out a selection of its world-class collection of watercolors, rarely seen due to their fragility, by artists such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Amedeo ...

Summary: 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, ...

(I’ll turn 87 in this upcoming year and am happy to have the wisdom of John LaFarge not only to share with others but also for guidance in my own life). [hotblock] Father LaFarge puts it this ...

“Growing Old Gratefully” became our theme as we took a cue from a small book by Jesuit Father John LaFarge, “Reflections on Growing Old: Thoughts for turning the latter years into the best ...

This, in fact, was the assignment given him in the spring of 1966 with his appointment as director of the John LaFarge Institute. Founded in 1964 by the editors of the Jesuit weekly, America ...

Bowen, an associate of Louis Tiffany, John LaFarge and Otto Heinigke. Bonawit went into business for himself in 1918 and by 1930 employed 15 craftsmen. But the Depression took a toll. When Bonawit won ...

Imperceptibly, inevitably, the salon appeared. Henry Adams and John LaFarge would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot ...

Much of the beauty of the chapel is due to the large stained window, the work of John LaFarge of New York, which occupies the center of the picture in Widener. The window is divided into six ...