TitleThe Shawl
Artist
Charles Cropper Parks
(1922 - 2012)
Date1974
MediumBronze with wooden hexagon base
DimensionsOverall: 37 x 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Other (Sculpture): 35 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 8 in.
Other (Base): 1 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.,
SignedSigned at right near proper left foot: "Parks 74"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, February 2, 1976
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number214-S
Label TextFirst conceived in 1970, The Shawl represents a full-length, standing, young woman with long hair. She holds a young boy, and a shawl, draped over her shoulders, also wraps around the child. A seven-and-one-half-inch version of this piece, cast in polyester resin, won the Gold Medal at the 38th Annual Exhibition of the National Sculpture Society in 1971. Two other versions, one in bronze (1970) and the other, eight feet in height and in fiberglass (1971), are in private collections.
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