A Country Scene

A Country Scene

John La FargeWW-1848-523801

Gift of Andrea and Joseph Goldberg

Catalogue

Year
1848
Dimensions
27 × 38 cm (10 11/16 × 15 in.)

Artist

John La Farge
John La Farge

John La Farge was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge made stained glass windows, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning with a large commission for Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston in 1878, and continuing for thirty years. La Farge designed stained glass as an artist, as a specialist in color, and as a technical innovator, holding a patent granted in 1880 for superimposing panes of glass. That patent would be key in his dispute with contemporary and rival Louis Comfort Tiffany.

New York, NY, USA

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