The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Fortune
1901
Location: not on view
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).- ?-1950William G. Mather [1857-1951], Bratenahl, OHOctober 10, 1950The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Ross, Barbara T. American Drawings in the Art Museum. Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples : [Exhibition]. Princeton, N.J.: [Art Museum, Princeton University], 1976. Mentioned, p. 76, under cat. 74Foster, Kathleen A., Henry A. La Farge, H. Barbara Weinberg, Linnea H. Wren, James L. Yarnall, John La Farge, and Henry Adams. John La Farge: Essays. New York: The Abbeville Press, 1987. Mentioned, pp. 66-68, 219, illus., p. 68, fig. 160; cat. 99.Yarnall, James L. John La Farge, Watercolors and Drawings. Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum of Westchester, 1990. No. 140, p. 131
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