John La Farge, 1902

Angel of Help, 1886.

Figure of Wisdom

Angel at the Tomb, Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy, Massachusetts).

John LaFarge (March 31, 1835–November 14, 1910) was an American painter, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 462 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1821 × 2363 pixel, file size: 844 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 462 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1821 × 2363 pixel, file size: 844 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x681, 78 KB)Figure of Wisdom, stained glass window in Unity Church, North Easton, MA. Copyright ©2005 by Daniel P. B. Smith and released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x681, 78 KB)Figure of Wisdom, stained glass window in Unity Church, North Easton, MA. Copyright ©2005 by Daniel P. B. Smith and released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 490 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1700 × 2081 pixel, file size: 687 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 490 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1700 × 2081 pixel, file size: 687 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The original building (1882), front view, architect H. H. Richardson. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (91st in leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Born in New York City, New York, his interest in art was aroused during his training at Mount St. Mary's University^[1] and St. John's College (now Fordham University). He had only the study of law in view until he returned from his first visit to Paris, France where he studied with Thomas Couture and enjoyed the most brilliant literary society of the day. Even his earliest drawings and landscapes, done in Newport, Rhode Island, after his marriage in 1861 to Margaret Mason Perry, sister-in-law of Lilla Cabot Perry, show marked originality, especially in the handling of color values, and also the influence of Japanese art, in the study of which he was a pioneer. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... NY redirects here. ... Mount Saint Marys University is a private, liberal arts, Catholic university located on a 1,400 acre (5. ... Fordham University is a private, coeducational research university[2] in the United States, with three residential campuses located in and around New York City. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Thomas Couture (December 21, 1815 – March 30, 1879) was an influential French history painter and teacher. ... Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. ... 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar) // January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by... Self-Portrait (1892) Lilla Cabot Perry, (January 13, 1848 – February 28, 1933), was one of the first American artists to embrace impressionism during the late 19th century. ...

LaFarge's inquiring mind led him to experiment with color problems, especially in the medium of stained glass. He succeeded not only in rivaling the gorgeousness of the medieval windows, but in adding new resources by his invention of opalescent glass and his original methods of superimposing and welding his material. Among his many masterpieces are the "Battle Window" at Harvard and the cloisonné "Peacock Window" in the Worcester Art Museum. Two of his largest windows are located in Unity Church in North Easton, Massachusetts. The earliest of these, the "Angel of Help" was completed in 1887 while the "Figure of Wisdom" dates to 1901. Both of these windows were restored by "Victor Rothman for Stained Glass Inc" of Yonkers, New York in the 1990's. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Worcester Art Museum, located at 65 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, is one of the largest art museums in Central Massachusetts. ...

During 1859-70 he illustrated Tennyson's Enoch Arden and Robert Browning's Men and Women. Breadth of observation and structural conception, and a vivid imagination and sense of color are shown by his mural decorations. His first work in mural painting was done in Trinity Church, Boston, in 1873. Then followed his decorations in the Church of the Ascension (the large altarpiece) and St. Paul's Church, New York. For the State Capitol at St. Paul he executed, in his seventy-first year, four great lunettes representing the history of religion, and for the Supreme Court building at Baltimore, a similar series with Justice as the theme. In addition there are his vast numbers of other paintings and water colors, notably those recording his extensive travels in the Orient and South Pacific. Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ... Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. ... This article is on the supplementary pamphlet that was inserted in the Sunday Times of India; for information on Robert Brownings work Men and Women, see Men and Women (poetry collection). ... Trinity Church in Boston. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Church of the Ascension (Manhattan) is an Episcopal church in the Diocese of New York, located at Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in New York Citys historic Greenwich Village neighborhood. ... St Pauls Church is a generic name for hundreds of churches. ... NY redirects here. ... Nickname: Motto: The Greatest City in America,[4] Get in on it. ...

His labors in almost every field of art won for him from the French Government the Cross of the Legion of Honor and membership in the principal artistic societies of America, as well as the presidency of the Society of Mural Painters. Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personality and reflective conversation he greatly influenced all who knew him. Though naturally a questioner he venerated the traditions of religious art, and preserved always his Catholic faith and reverence. Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ...

In 1904, he was one of the first seven chosen for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On his passing in 1910, John LaFarge was interred in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. During his life, he maintained a studio at 51 West 10th Street, in Greenwich Village, which today is part of the site of Eugene Lang College^[2]. American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ... The Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, it was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ... Eugene Lang College is the undergraduate liberal arts division of the The New School, formerly known as the New School for Social Research and New School University. ...

His eldest son, Christopher Grant LaFarge, was a partner in the New York-based architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge, responsible for projects in Beaux-Arts style, notably the original Byzantine Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Yale undergraduate society St. Anthony Hall (extant 1893-1913) pictured at[1], and the original Astor Court buildings of the Bronx Zoo. The New York-based architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge, composed of Philadelphia-born architect George Lewis Heins (1860–1907) and Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), who was the eldest son of the artist John LaFarge, famous especially for his stained glass panels, were responsible most notably for the original Romanesque... Beaux-Arts architecture[1] denotes the academic classical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. ... The Western facade, including the Rose Window Western entrance on Amsterdam Avenue The Cathedral of St. ... St. ... The Bronx Zoo is a world-famous zoo located within the Bronx Park, in the Bronx borough of New York City. ...

Another of his sons, John LaFarge S.J. became a Jesuit priest and a strong supporter of anti-racial policies. He wrote several books and articles before the war on this subject, one of which caught the eye of Pope Pius XI who summoned him to Rome and asked him to work out a new encyclical, Humani Generis Unitas, against Nazi policies. John LaFarge completed work on the encyclical, but unfortunately it reached the pope only three weeks before the pope's death. It remained buried in the Vatican archives and was only rediscovered a few years ago. John LaFarge S.J. was born February 13, 1880 and died November 25, 1963. His most famous books are The Manner is Ordinary (1953), Race Relations (1956), and Reflections on Growing Old (1963). Pope Pius XI (Latin: ; Italian: Pio XI; May 31, 1857 – February 10, 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922 and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939. ... An encyclical was a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Christian church. ... Humani Generis Unitas (Latin for On the Unity of Humanity) was a planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI before his death on 10 February 1939, which condemned antisemitism, racism and the persecution of Jews. ...

LaFarge's writings include:

• The American Art of Glass (a pamphlet)
• Considerations on Painting (New York, 1895)
• An Artist's Letters from Japan (New York, 1897)
• The Great Masters (New York)
• Hokusai: a talk about Japanese painting (New York, 1897)
• The Higher Life in Art (New York, 1908)
• One Hundred Great Masterpieces
• The Christian Story in Art
• Letters from the South Seas (unpublished)
• Correspondence (unpublished)

References

• Adams, Foster, La Farge, Weinberg, Wren and Yarnell, John La Farge, Abbeville Press, NY, NY 1987
• Cortissoz, Royal, John La Farge: A Memoir and a Study, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1911
• Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 201-220.
• Gaede, Robert and Robert Kalin, Guide to Cleveland Architecture, Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Cleveland OH 1991
• Kowski, Goldman et al, Buffalo Architecture:A Guide, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1981
• Waern, Cecilia, John La Farge: Artist and Writer, Seeley and Co. Limited, London 1896

1. ^ Works by Mount Saint Mary's Alumnus to be Featured in Exhibit. emmitsburg.net.
2. ^ Kenneth T. Jackson:The Encyclopedia of New York City: The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 650.

External Links

• LaFarge Gallery at MuseumSyndicate

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