Harvard Art Museums > 1950.113: Floating Woman 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"Floating Woman (Gaston Lachaise) , 1950.113,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/228542. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1950.113 People Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY) Title Floating Woman Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 1924 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/228542 Physical Descriptions Medium Bronze Dimensions 31.8 x 44.5 x 16.5 cm (12 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Gaston Lachaise, to; Isabel Dutaud (Mrs. Gaston) Lachaise,1935(?), gift; to Private Collector, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1950. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift Accession Year 1950 Object Number 1950.113 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. Publication History Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, Eakin Press (New York, NY, 1967) D. B. Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor" (Ph.D Diss., Harvard University, 1969), Unpublished, I, 476-482; II, 422 Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh.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. 142, ill. Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, Braziller (New York, NY, 1974), p. 130, reproduced as no. 67 "Outstanding Exhibitions", Apollo (June 1975), reproduced no. 1, p. 484 Gaston Lachaise, exh. cat., Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, 1979), no. 17, p. 11 Irma B. Jaffe, The Sculpture of Leonard Baskin, Viking Press (New York, 1980), reproduced in b/w fig. 87, p. 136; text p. 127, 134 Jeanne L. Wasserman, Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 5, p. 30, reproduced in b/w Virginia Budny, "Gaston Lachaise's American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation", The American Art Journal (2003-2004), XXXIV and XXXV, pp. 62-143, p. 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 Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Jay Wolf, and Jennifer Roberts, American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008), p. 443, fig. 13.25 Exhibition History Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 01/30/1935 - 03/07/1935 Gaston Lachaise, Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 01/28/1957 - 02/23/1957 American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 Gaston Lachaise, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, 01/20/1979 - 03/04/1979 Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1980 - 06/15/1980 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
