Art: A Clan Hangs

A large number of dowagers crowded into the ancient elevator of New York's Wildenstein Galleries last week to ride up to a most extraordinary family exhibi-tion—the work of the talented La Farges, children and grandchildren of the late great John La Farge, mural painter, designer of stained glass windows. Many a U. S. family boasts greater painters, few can claim such a diffusion of talent as the clan La Farge.

Lank, myopic John La Farge was born in New York in 1835, son of a French emigre from Santo Domingo who had made...