John La Farge (1835 - 1910)
1835-03-31New York City, USA1910-11-14Providence, USAUSA
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 is best known for his production of stained glass, 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.
Date and place of birt: | 31 march 1835, New York City, USA |
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Date and place of death: | 14 november 1910, Providence, USA |
Nationality: | USA |
Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Decorator, Glass painter, Illustrator, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
Genre: | Cityscape, Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Technique: | Fresco |