Winged Fortune by William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879)
Winged Fortune by William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879)
- Title
- Winged Fortune
- Creator(s)
- William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879)
- Uploader
- openaccess
- Publish Date
- 1878
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Total Size
- 86.06 MB
- PDF Size
- 10 B
- Download
- 375
- Total Files
- 9
- PDF Count
- -1
- Extensions
- torrent
- Subjects
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Collections
- clevelandart
- Media Type
- image
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Download the image titled "Winged Fortune" by William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879). Available in PDF format.
Winged Fortune, 1878. William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879). Oil on canvas; unframed: 252 x 159.5 cm (99 3/16 x 62 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.54 This painting is a full size study for one of the figures in <em>The Discoverer</em>, a mural that William Morris Hunt painted on the vaulted roof of the Assembly Chamber at New York's state capitol in Albany. The mural showed Christopher Columbus standing boldly in a boat facing west. Winged Fortune stood behind him, her left hand holding the rudder as her right hand spread the sail. Hope sat in the bow, Science held a navigational chart, and Faith, covering her eyes, swam blindly ahead. Hunt only had two months to paint the murals, making many preparatory studies like this one. Not long after Hunt's death, massive leakage and cracking began to destroy the murals, which he had painted directly onto the wall. Eventually, a new ceiling was added to the chamber, concealing the murals completely.