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accession number:	1923.724
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.724
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Turtle Baby, c. 1910–16. Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons (American, 1878–1956). Bronze; overall: 104.2 cm (41 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection 1923.724

title:				Turtle Baby
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creation date:			c. 1910–16
creation date earliest:		1910
creation date latest:		1916
current location:		000 Education Gallery
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	bronze
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons (American, 1878–1956)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 104.2 cm (41 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	6 in edition

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed on base: E. BARRETTO PARSONS COPYRIGHT
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930
	opening date:   1986-08-12T04:00:00
	<i>The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12-October 19, 1986).

	title:		Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

	title:		The American Impressionists in the Garden
	opening date:   2010-03-13T00:00:00
	<i>The American Impressionists in the Garden</i>. Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (organizer) (March 13-September 6, 2010); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (September 24, 2010-January 3, 2011); Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (February 18-May 15, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Henry A. Everett
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fun fact:
Parsons created similar sculptures featuring young girls and boys with ducks, frogs, and fish.

digital description:
Parsons achieved renown through her garden sculptures of young children accompanied by animals, which one commentator praised for capturing “the happiness of just being alive.” In <em>Turtle Baby</em>, her most famous composition, the figure of the girl was modeled after her daughter. Conceived as a fountain, the sculpture has internal water conduits exiting the mouths of the four turtles circling its base.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Solender, Katherine. The American Way in Sculpture, 1890-1930. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
	page number: 	cat. #28, p. 32, repr.
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	W. M. M. "Contemporary American Bronzes." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 10 (1919): 151-63.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 153
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25136326

	Gibson, Katherine. "'Michael, Rubens, and Some More of Us' In the Children’s Museum, Cleveland." <em>The American Magazine of Art</em> 15, no. 1 (1924): 707-10.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 709; Mentioned: p. 708-09
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/23927823

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IMAGES

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