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
Based in La Farge, about 90 miles northwest of Madison in Vernon County, Organic Valley includes more than 2,000 farms with annual sales of more than $1 billion.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2020
Thanks to this latest exploit, evolutionary biologist Catherine La Farge arrived centuries later at Teardrop’s melting edge to find the tuft of the species Aulacomnium turgidum finally free from its icy entombment.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2019
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
Consider the criticism of painting by the painters themselves,—how frankly it is concerned with the processes of the art, whether the painter-critic is Fromentin or La Farge.
From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews
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