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accession number: 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.)
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edition of the work: 6 in edition
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inscriptions:
inscription: Signed on base: E. BARRETTO PARSONS COPYRIGHT
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930
opening date: 1986-08-12T04:00:00
The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930. 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
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. 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
The American Impressionists in the Garden. 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.
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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 Turtle Baby, 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.
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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." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 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." The American Magazine of Art 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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