1969.160: E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Sculpture
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1969.160
- People
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Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
- Title
- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Portrait bust of E.E. Cummings
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- bust, sculpture
- Date
- 1927
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228158
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- 36.83 x 21.59 cm (14 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: on back: G. Lachaise, Signed Date: 1927
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
E. E. Cummings, 1927, to; his wife Marion M. Cummings, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.
NOTE: Cummings commissioned the cast from a plaster made in 1924.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marion M. Cummings
- Accession Year
- 1969
- Object Number
- 1969.160
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1935), p. 12; checklist no. 22
- Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, Eakin Press (New York, NY, 1967), reproduced in b/w no. 46
- Acquisitions, 1969-1970, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), reproduced in b/w p. 105
- Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, Braziller (New York, NY, 1974), p. 89, reproduced in b/w no. 28
- Les Realismes: 1919-1939, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France, 1980), p. 523; reproduced in b/w p. 263
- Richard S. Kennedy, E. E. Cummings Revisited, Twayne Publishers (New York, NY, 1994), reproduced in b/w fig. 15, p. 60
- 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Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim
Exhibition History
- Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 01/30/1935 - 03/07/1935
- 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
- Les Realismes, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Cedex 04, 12/17/1980 - 04/20/1981
- American and British Figurative Art of the Inter-War Years, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/13/1992 - 12/31/1992
- The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005
Verification Level
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