AR 121a Writing About Art: Library Research Class: Home

• What can we find out about him?
• What can we find out about his work?
• What can we find out about this work?
• Did he paint similar subjects that might shed light on this painting?
• Who were his contemporaries?
• Consider the work in context with other works of its time, genre, region, style.  
• Are there writings of his own that would shed light on this piece? (e.g. primary sources)
• What other primary sources can I find?

  Agathon to Erosanthe (Votive Wreath) 

  1861. Oil on canvas. 23 x 13 in.

  John La Farge, 1835-1910, American.

  Colby College Museum of Art,

  Lunder Collection.