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    "localId": "127635",
    "label": "Fortune",
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    "id": "127635",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Fortune",
    "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).",
    "date": "1901",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)",
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    "tombstone": "Fortune, 1901. John La Farge (American, 1835–1910). Graphite; sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William G. Mather, 1950.316",
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    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: JLF. [illeglible]"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "signed, lower lef, in graphite:  A [?] B[illegible]"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Ross, Barbara T. <em>American Drawings in the Art Museum. Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples</em> : [Exhibition]. Princeton, N.J.: [Art Museum, Princeton University], 1976.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned, p. 76, under cat. 74"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foster, Kathleen A., Henry A. La Farge, H. Barbara Weinberg, Linnea H. Wren, James L. Yarnall, John La Farge, and Henry Adams. <em>John La Farge: Essays</em>. New York: The Abbeville Press, 1987.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned, pp. 66-68, 219, illus., p. 68, fig. 160; cat. 99."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yarnall, James L. <em>John La Farge, Watercolors and Drawings</em>. Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum of Westchester, 1990.",
            "page_number": "No. 140, p. 131"
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