harry clarke geneva window wolfsonian miami 2576058

The Wolfsonian FIU in Miami Beach is exhibiting "Harry Clarke and the Geneva Window," showcasing a luminous stained glass window created by Irish artist Harry Clarke (1891–1931) for the League of Nations building in Geneva. Commissioned by the Irish Free State in 1926, the window was completed in 1930 but ultimately rejected by the Irish government due to its controversial content, including depictions of drunkenness, nudity, and Protestant writers. The exhibition juxtaposes the window with late 19th and early 20th-century Irish decorative artworks and explores Clarke's life, his premature death from tuberculosis at age 41, and the political and cultural turmoil of post-independence Ireland.