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.

Exhibitions

4 exhibitions

Oct 31, 1932 – Feb 11, 1933

American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932

77 artists · 1 curator

May 10, 1939 – Sep 30, 1939

Painting, Sculpture, Prints

154 artists

Nov 17, 1943 – Feb 06, 1944

Romantic Painting in America

123 artists · 1 curator

Sep 29, 1976 – Nov 30, 1976

The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800–1950

67 artists · 1 curator