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John La Farge
Flowers on a Window Ledge, c. 1861
Painted shortly after La Farge's marriage to Margaret Mason Perry, this still life was more than an experiment in light and color. There is a discernible sense of romance in the artist's loosely brushed flowers and the thick folds of the white curtains, reminiscent of a bridal gown. 19th-century art critic James Jackson Jarves wrote that a La Farge flower "has no botanic talk or display of dry learning, but is burning with love, beauty, and sympathy." |