Fortune

1901
(American, 1835–1910)
Sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
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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

Fortune

1901

John La Farge

(American, 1835–1910)
America

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