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Morning
John La Farge American
Not on view
George A. Schastey collaborated with John La Farge in incorporating the many stained-glass windows for Arabella Worsham’s house at 4 West Fifty-Fourth Street. This example presents a young woman in Grecian robes as an allegory of Morning. Paired with a similar window depicting Evening, the two windows were located in Worsham’s bedroom. Typical of La Farge’s work, the languid figure suggests the sensibilities of the British Pre-Raphaelite movement. The pair of windows are some of the earliest to include La Farge’s invention of opalescent glass, which provided texture, striations, and a completely new palette. Here, small glass "jewels" punctuate the composition. The background is highly decorative in its all-over patterning of leaves and berries, reminiscent of William Morris wallpaper of the period. The windows were among the artworks removed from the house when ownership was transferred to John D. Rockefeller in 1884.
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