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Died. Otto Spaeth, 69, industrialist and art patron who made a fortune in real estate and machine tools (Dayton Tool & Engineering Co.), used it to build a notable private art collection, including masterpieces by Braque, Picasso, Corot, Gauguin and Cezanne, but in recent years concentrated more on aiding lesser-known contemporary artists and working to improve church architecture through his Spaeth Foundation awards; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...trapped middle-ager wants to flee, like Gauguin to the South Seas, but erstwhile bankers of 45 who desert their Parisian families and become great painters are one of a kind. To blunt the pain of reality, he slips a whisky bottle into his desk and nips at it. (Alcoholism climbs a steep 50% in the 40-60 group over ages 30-39.) His medicine cabinet begins to look like a pharmaceutical display, and he retreats into hypochondria. Indeed, the sense of being straitjacketed by fate may contribute sizably to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary attacks that increasingly fell middle-agers...
...write rather than paint, then used his brother, Philosopher William, as the model for St. John in an uncompleted altarpiece. La Farge also succeeded in smuggling a touch of the Renaissance back to the U.S., revived the art of stained glass, and visited Tahiti with sketchbook in hand before Gauguin got there. Unlike many of his well-educated countrymen, such as his contemporary Whistler, who became expatriates, La Farge put his talents to embellishing the barren American cultural scene...
...year of recreation and idleness" in the South Seas, visited Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti. His quick sketches, executed on the spot, caught the gaiety and innocence of an as yet unspoiled paradise with verve and masterly handling of light and flashing color. He just missed meeting Gauguin in Tahiti. In practice, La Farge was too much the meticulous mandarin (he loathed shaking hands with strangers) to refer to Gauguin other than as the "wild Frenchman." But his artist's eye easily bridged the gulf...
Writing to Henry Adams, he could say of Gauguin's work: "And yet there is the feeling of a man who has found something." The same could be said of La Farge...