Siva Dance: Triptych of Seated Single Figures

1890·Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with pastel, on cream wove paper (left); watercolor and opaque watercolor on cream wove paper (center); watercolor and opaque watercolor, with touches of pastel, on cream wove paper (right), mounted overall to pulp board·Left: 35.9 × 31.5 cm (14 3/16 × 12 7/16 in.); Center: 35.2 × 26.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Right: 34.4 × 26.5 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Gift of Bud and Ellie Frank

Catalogue

Year: 1890
Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with pastel, on cream wove paper (left); watercolor and opaque watercolor on cream wove paper (center); watercolor and opaque watercolor, with touches of pastel, on cream wove paper (right), mounted overall to pulp board
Dimensions: Left: 35.9 × 31.5 cm (14 3/16 × 12 7/16 in.); Center: 35.2 × 26.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Right: 34.4 × 26.5 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: John La Farge

Artist

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.

New York, NY, USA

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