Harvard Art Museums > 1962.78: Acrobat Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Acrobat (Gaston Lachaise) , 1962.78,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/227756. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1962.78 People Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY) Title Acrobat Other Titles Former Title: "Acrobat" Upside-Down Figure Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 1927 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/227756 Physical Descriptions Medium Bronze Dimensions 27.3 x 16.5 x 8.9 cm (10 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: on base: G Lachaise 1927 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Marian H. Phinney, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Museum, 1962. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney Accession Year 1962 Object Number 1962.78 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Base is made of polished black stone, designed by the artist for this piece. Publication History Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1963), no. 57, reproduced in b/w Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 32 D. B. Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor" (Ph.D Diss., Harvard University, 1969), Unpublished, vol. I, p. 492-494; vol. II, p. 477 Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 141, ill. Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, Braziller (New York, NY, 1974), no. 70, reproduced in b/w; pp. 133-134 Jeanne L. Wasserman, Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 9, p. 34, reproduced in b/w Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color, fig. 62, p. 69 Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 152, p. 134, repr. Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, "Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim Andrew J. Eschelbacher, A New American Sculpture 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach, exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art and Amon Carter Museum (Portland, ME and Fort Worth, TX, 2017), pp. 34, 95, 173, pl. 17, ill. (color) Exhibition History Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/03/1963 - 01/19/1964; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/18/1964 - 04/05/1964 Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967 American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 Gaston Lachaise Retrospective, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 11/05/1974 - 12/22/1974; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 01/26/1975 - 03/09/1975; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 05/01/1975 - 06/15/1975; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 07/12/1975 - 08/31/1975 Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1980 - 06/15/1980 Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986 American and British Figurative Art of the Inter-War Years, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/13/1992 - 12/31/1992 Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 A New American Sculpture: Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 05/23/2017 - 09/03/2017; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, 10/14/2017 - 01/07/2018; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 02/17/2018 - 05/13/2018 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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