La Farge
Americannoun
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John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.
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Oliver Hazard Perry Oliver II, 1901–63, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
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Paul La Farge, whose novels played audaciously with history and narrative technique as they explored how the past can affect the present, died on Jan. 18 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
And finally, Zahm returns with a full serving of beef tenderloin from Organic Valley, a cooperative based in nearby La Farge.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2021
William Trost Richards is a specialty as is the stained-glass artist and painter John La Farge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 17, 2018
La Farge prefers the print edition: “Of course you can look words up online. But how will you stumble on the ones you don’t know you don’t know: ug, or apocalypst, or catoptromancy?”
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018
The name of St. Gaudens is associated with those of John La Farge, White, MacMonnies, MacNeil, and Calder in the making of the Washington Arch.
From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett
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