Woman (Elevation) by Gaston Lachaise
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Woman (Elevation)

Gaston Lachaise · Modeled 1912–15, cast 1927

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, New York; by descent to his widow, Isabel Dutaud Nagle Lachaise (1872–1957), New York, 1935; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, The Brummer Gallery, Lachaise, Feb. 27–Mar. 24, 1928, cat. 5.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

Literature

Published references

  • Katharine Kuh, “Lachaise: Sculptor of Maturity,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 40, 3 (Mar. 1946), 31, ill.
  • Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise (Eakins Press, 1967), 11.
  • Gerald Norland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work (George Braziller, 1974), 74.
  • Sam Hunter, Lachaise (Cross River Press, 1993), 23–25.
  • Otto G. Ocvirk and Robert E. Stinson, et al., Art Fundamentals, 7th edition (William C. Brown, 1994), 260, ill.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Eldelstein (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 32.
  • Virginia Budny, “Gaston Lachaise’s American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation,” American Art Journal 34 & 35 (2003–2004), 64, fig. 1.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 49–52, cat. 5 (ill.).

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