Research topic: John La Farge

John La Farge , 1835-1910, American artist and writer, b. New York City. He studied with William Morris Hunt in Newport, R.I., and with Couture in Paris. La Farge began his career as a painter of landscapes and figure compositions. Commissioned (1876) to decorate Trinity Church, Boston, he thereafter engaged primarily in mural painting and the manufacture and design of stained glass. An eclectic artist and a man of the widest culture, friend of Henry Adams and Henry James, La Farge did much to create a sound tradition of the fine arts in the United States. His murals in Trinity Church and the... Read more