Sunstruck

Odd—there is no sun in this apparently dark room, and yet the colors give me the impression of the quintessence of sun, a moment of intensest light.

John La Farge is an artist unknown to me, though I fell in love with his stained glass windows at the museum in Boston.  And I do know the artist's great-grandson, who lives in Santa Fe and went to school with friends of mine and is the son of the author of Laughing Boy.



image:  John La Farge (American, 1835-1910). Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table, 1879, Shooting Brooklyn