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Artist:
Jacques Lipchitz, American, b. Druskieniki, Lithuania, 1891–1973  Search this
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
15 1/4 × 23 3/4 × 12 5/8 in. (38.7 × 60.4 × 32 cm)
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
(1938)/cast by 1956
Provenance:
Fine Arts Associates, New York, to 9 February 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 9 February 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History:
FINE ART ASSOCIATES, New York. "Paintings Watercolors Sculpture," 18 December 1956-1 January 1957, no. 16, ill.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "The Museum and Its Friends," 30 April-15 June 1958, no. 103.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 123. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 244, ill. p. 100.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 481, p. 340, p. 714.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 17 November 1977-15 January 1978, no. 36, ill. p. 7.
MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Alabama. "Animals in Art: A Loan Exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution," 1 January-31 March 1982, checklist, no. 24.
ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park. "Sculptors' Drawings," 15 January-15 March 1983.
SCULPTURE ARCHIVES GALLERY, ALBERT AND VERA LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptor and Collector," 1 March-9 June 1985, no. 8, ill.
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, Rockville, Maryland. "Between the Wars: Jewish Artists Striving Toward an American Idiom," 5 January-23 February 1986.
ELIZABETH MYERS MITCHELL GALLERY, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. "Image and Word," 17 September-31 October 1989, brochure, ill.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SHIGA, Otsu, Japan. "The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum," 1 July-6 August 1995, no. 41, ill. p. 90. TOUR: ODAKYU MUSEUM, Tokyo, 9-27 August; IWAKI CITY ART MUSEUM, 23 September-5 November; TAKAMATSU CITY MUSEUM OF ART, 10 November-10 December.
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Washington, DC (organizer). "Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee." TOUR: JEWISH MUSEUM, New York, 23 November 1997-29 March 1998; Filed Museum, Chicago, April-September.
Published References:
GENAUER, EMILY. "Top Art Loans at the Whitney," New York Herald Tribune (4 May 1958), ill. p. 9.
BRONER, ROBERT. "Keen, Perceptive Show of Sculpture," Detroit Times (3 May 1959).
FISH, MARGARET. "Moderns' Diversity Dominates Great Sculpture Show," Milwaukee Sentinal (27 September 1959).
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), fig. 481, p. 340, p. 714.
HANHISALO, JUDITH EVANS. Enjoying Art (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1983), ill. 83, p. 131.
UNSIGNED. "A Reconciliation of Myth and Rationality," National Endowment for the Humanities 5/1 (February 1984), p. 6, ill.
WILKINSON, ALAN G. The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonne vol. 1 (London; New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996), no. 343, ill. pp. 111, 225.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number:
66.3093
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