John La Farge
Fortune
1901
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).
- Medium
- graphite
- Spotted At
- Museum · Cleveland Museum of Art
Spotted works by John La Farge
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