La Farge, John
La Farge, John( 1835–1910),artist and author, was born in New York of French parentage. He went abroad (1856) to study painting with Couture and met the Pre-Raphaelites and other intellectual and artistic leaders of the time. In 1876 he executed the mural decorations for Trinity Church, Boston, and thereafter he devoted himself to mural painting and the design and manufacture of stained glass. While in Japan, Samoa, and the South Seas with Henry Adams he produced fine watercolors and paintings. His decorative, refined murals, in the tradition of the Italian masters, are in many churches and in the Minnesota state capitol. His books include Considerations on Painting (1895), An Artist's Letters from Japan (1897), Great Masters (1903), The Higher Life in Art (1908), and Reminiscences of the South Seas (1912). Christopher and Oliver La Farge are his grandsons.
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