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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.200
People
Elie Nadelman, American (Warsaw, Poland 1882 - 1946 New York, NY)
Title
The Pianiste
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, figure
Date
c. 1920-1924
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299888

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stained and painted wood, and iron wire
Dimensions
92.7 x 55.9 x 29.8 cm (36 1/2 x 22 x 11 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Dr. and Mrs. John P. Spiegel, 1956, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Spiegel
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.200
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 132, ill.
  • Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nadelman, The Eakins Press (New York, NY, 1973), p. 298
  • Nicholas Roukes, Masters of Wood Sculpture, Watson-Guptill Publications and Pitman House (New York, NY and London, England, 1980), ill. p. 25
  • 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, p. 71, fig. 66
  • 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), p. 132, cat. 150, ill.
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 194, ill. p. 195
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 195
  • Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson, Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman, New York Historical Society and D. Giles (London and New York, 2015), pp. 104, 340-342, cat, IV, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Boston Collects Modern Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/24/1964 - 06/14/1964
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman, New York Historical Society, New York, 05/20/2016 - 08/21/2016

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