- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1995.190
- People
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Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
- Title
- Kneeling Female Figure
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1930-1935
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232257
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Plaster and plasticene
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 26 x 17.8 x 26.7 cm (10 1/4 x 7 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Provenance
- Lois Orswell, acquired 1957(?), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.190
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 102, fig. 47, pp. 102-103, 325, 377
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Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim
Virginia Budny, "The Female Form in Twentieth-Century Sculpture", Sculpture Review, National Sculpture Society (New York, NY, 2009), Vol. LVIII, No. 4, p. 18, ill. (b/w)
- Exhibition History
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Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008
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