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DECORATIVE ARTS
SCULPTURE
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNED FURNITURE |
SCULPTURE:
Title: Rose McClendon, Executed: c.1930-40
Artist: Richmond Barthe (1901-1989), Nationality: American
Medium: Cast Concrete, Dimensions: 42 inches x 12 inches
| | Richmond Barthe’s early life was spent in Mississippi and Louisiana. When he was 22, he traveled to Chicago where he began formal training at the School of the Art Institute. Under the influence of Archibald J. Motley, Jr. and Charles Schroeder, Barthe decided that his talents were best suited for sculpture. Barthe captivated the art world by producing sculptures and busts of African Americans as no one had ever done before. The Sculpture of Rose McClendon is one of many theatrical celebrity portraits that Barthe executed. Rose McClendon (1884-1936) was one of the most famous African American actresses in the period of 1920-1935.
| Title: Landscape, Executed: c.1950s
Artist: Joseph Goto (1920-1994), Nationality: American
Medium: Bronze and Steel, Dimension: 110 inches x 9 inches
| | Joseph Goto was born in Hilo, Hawaii of Japanese parents. Before coming to the mainland in 1947 to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, he worked as a welder in a Naval shipyard, and thus acquired an understanding of the properties of steel. This was to become his preferred sculptural medium.
| Title: Bear Run I, Executed: 1978-79
Artists: Bryan Hunt (1947- ), Nationality: American
Medium: Bronze, Dimensions: 120 inches x 14 inches
| | Born in 1947, Bryan Hunt was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, and studied architecture in Florida. In the early 1970s Hunt began to create models of well-known architectural landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and the Great Wall of China. By 1976 his work had changed considerably. Hunt began to translate objects directly from the landscape (lakes, quarries, waterfalls) into richly carved, abstract forms isolated from their original contexts. Edgar Kaufmann, jr. commissioned this piece from Hunt specifically for Fallingwater.
| Title: Mother and Child, Executed: 1941-45
Artist: Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Nationality: Lithuanian
Medium: Bronze, Dimensions: 47 inches x 50 inches
The sculpture Mother and Child post-dates Lipchitz cubist period. Though the artist began making sketches for the work while still in Paris in 1939, Lipchitz did not carry out the sculpture until after 1941 when he arrived in New York fleeing Nazi-threatened Paris. For Lipchitz, this work was a response to World War II.
| | Title: The Harpist, Executed: c. 1940s-50s
Artist: Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Nationality: Lithuanian
Medium: Bronze, Dimensions: 20 inches x 23 inches
|  | Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania, but moved to Paris in 1909 to study at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts and Academie Julien. In 1913, he met Picasso and began his association with the Cubists. In May 1940, with the German invasion of France, Lipchitz left Paris and in 1941 reached the United States, where he lived until his death.
| Title: Madonna and Child Sculpture, Executed: c. 1420
Artist: Unknown, Nationality: Austrian-Bohemian origin
Medium: Wood, Dimensions: 39 inches x 16 inches
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