John La Farge Prints
1835–1910 · American · Aesthetic Movement
Wall art by John La Farge, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
6 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About John La Farge
John La Farge was born in New York in March 1835 to wealthy French parents, studied law, and after a short time in Couture's Paris studio joined William Morris Hunt in Newport in 1859. His small flower pieces and landscapes of the 1860s, painted in diffused light with an eye on Japanese prints, which he collected before almost anyone in America, are among the first American pictures that can be called modern. From the 1870s he turned to murals, beginning with Trinity Church, Boston, and to stained glass, inventing opalescent glass in 1879 and making windows that rival Tiffany's. In 1886 he travelled to Japan with Henry Adams and in 1890–91 to Tahiti and Samoa, painting watercolours there before Gauguin arrived. He died in Providence in November 1910. His flower paintings print as quiet, luminous still lifes for a bedroom, kitchen or hallway.