Cleveland Museum of Art
Winged Fortune
William Morris HuntLinkedCulture matchlcp-e13e58d5dba3
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 145298
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting is a full-size study for one of the figures in The Discoverer , 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.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- William Morris Hunt (artist's grandson), Boston; Vose Galleries, 238 Newbury Street Boston, MA; sold to CMA 10 September 1970.
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