TitleMeditation
Artist
Robert Ingersoll Aitken
(American, 1878 - 1949)
Date1907
MediumBronze
DimensionsOther (Sculpture): 16 × 13 × 13 in.
Other (Base): 2 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 5, 1914
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number3-S
Label TextThe acceptance of Aitken's diploma work, Meditation, is recorded in Academy minutes. Over the years, this work came to be designated in registration records simply as Head-Girl. However, there can be no doubt that it is the piece received from the artist in 1914 to confirm his election to Academician. A version owned at the time by the National Sculpture Society, New York, was exhibited at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and Albright Art Gallery in 1909 and 1910.
