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Fortune

1901

John La Farge

(American, 1835–1910)
Culture
America
Medium
graphite
Support
Cream(3) Japanese paper
Measurements
Sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William G. Mather 1950.316
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Description

When commissioned in 1901 to make a stained glass window for the Frick office building in Pittsburgh, John La Farge produced this strange design of Fortune balancing precariously on a wheel—an emblem of the fickleness of fortune. The hazy, mysterious handling of the face of the central figure recalls contemporary French Symbolist painters such as Odilon Redon (1840–1916).

Fortune

1901

John La Farge

(American, 1835–1910)
America

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