John La Farge is fifty-two in 1887…
August 1887 CE
John La Farge is fifty-two in 1887 when he paints his finest mural, the Ascension, is in the Church of the Ascension in New York City.
He also decorates the Fifth Avenue mansions of William Watts Sherman and Cornelius Vanderbilt II and paints murals in New York's Union League Club.
He becomes interested in stained glass about the same time.
Through his invention of opalescent glass and his imaginative designing, he contributes to a revival of the art of stained glass in America and gains an international reputation.
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