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accession number: 1924.1425
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Head of a Woman, 1923. Gaston Lachaise (American, 1882–1935). Pink Tennessee marble and black pigment; overall: 64.2 x 54 x 40 cm (25 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1924.1425
title: Head of a Woman
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creation date: 1923
creation date earliest: 1923
creation date latest: 1923
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creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: America
technique: pink Tennessee marble and black pigment
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Gaston Lachaise (American, 1882–1935) - sculptor
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measurements: Overall: 64.2 x 54 x 40 cm (25 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
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inscription: Signed on base: G. LACHAISE 1923
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Sculpture of Our Time
opening date: 1937-11-05T05:00:00
Sculpture of Our Time. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 5, 1937).
title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00
Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
title: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings
opening date: 1979-01-21T05:00:00
Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (organizer) (January 21-March 4, 1979).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, 1924: "The Fourth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," no cat.', 'opening_date': '1924-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, 1924: "Exhibition of Paintings by Zuloaga and Sorolla, and Sculpture by Lachaise and Bourdelle," no cat.', 'opening_date': '1924-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1935: Work of Gaston Lachaise, cat. no. 15, pl. 15.', 'opening_date': '1935-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964: "Work of Gaston Lachaise," and to NY, Whitney Museum of American Art', 'opening_date': '1964-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1979: "Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings"', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, DC, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985: "Portrait Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise," cat. p. 48, repr. p. 49.', 'opening_date': '1985-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, NY
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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. #37, p. 39, repr.
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
page number: cat. no. 24.
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Milliken, William M. "Head of a Woman by Gaston Lachaise." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 11:8 (October 1924).
page number: Mentioned: pp. 160-161; Reproduced: p. 167
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"Head of a Woman by Gaston Lachaise." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 8 (October 1924): 160-161
page number: Mentioned: p. 160-161; Reproduced: p. 167
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
page number: Reproduced: p. 37
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n39
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