In 1890, John La Farge (1835-1910) embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific, where the artist experienced a period of great creative output. This book showcases many of the most important oils, watercolours, and sketches to come out of La Farge's two-year voyage to the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
A second paradise: John La Farge's search for the sublime in the twilight of the American landscape movement / Elisabeth Hodermarsky -- Exoticisms in the South Seas: John La Farge and Henry Adams encounter the Pacific / Elizabeth C. Childs -- John La Farge's South Seas sketchbooks: their nature and their significance / Henry Adams -- Common ground: John La Farge and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti / Elizabeth C. Childs -- Paradise remembered: the late windows of John La Farge / John Stuart Gordon.
Note
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, Conn. October 19, 2010-January 2, 2011, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy Andover, Mass., January 22-March 27, 2011."