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John La Farge
[American Tonalist Painter, 1835-1910]
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John La Farge Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by John La Farge available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
John La Farge at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Helping Angel Window Panel, 1890
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
John La Farge at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Chiefs and Performers in War Dance, Fiji, 1891
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Many works online
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Still Life of Petunias in a Glass Vase
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Athens, 1898
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Meditation of Kuwannon, watercolor, ca.1886
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Tokio Geisha Dancing in the House of Our Neighbor, Nikko, gouache, 1886
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Agathon to Erosanthe (Votive Wreath), 1861
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Sunrise in Fog over Kyoto, 1886
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Japanese Fisherman, Study of Sunlight, 1888-89
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Spring, ca.1896
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Autumn, ca.1896
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Magnolia Blossom, ca.1863
Self-Portrait, 1864
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Paradise Valley, 1866-68
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Peacock Window, 1892-1908
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Stained Glass Photography
John La Farge at The Art Renewal Center
John La Farge at The Athenaeum 
Numerous works online by La Farge
John La Farge at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John La Farge 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"1891 John La Farge Watercolor"
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