id:			93101
accession number:	1924.1425
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.1425
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:04.402000

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, 20th century
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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inscriptions:

	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
	<i>Sculpture of Our Time</i>. 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
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. 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
	<i>Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings</i>. 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
	<i>The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930</i>. 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." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 11:8 (October 1924).
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 160-161; Reproduced: p. 167
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	"Head of a Woman by Gaston Lachaise." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11</em>, no. 8 (October 1924): 160-161
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 160-161; Reproduced: p. 167
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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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