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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.160
People
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
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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Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim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

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