TitleA Singer ( Marc-Aurele Suzor-Cote)
Artist
John Flanagan
(American, 1865 - 1952)
Date1893
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 19 × 12 × 12 in.
Other (Sculpture): 16 × 9 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.
Other (Base): 3 × 12 × 12 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 19, 1928
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number30-S
Label TextMarc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté was born in Arthabaska, Quebec, in 1869. He went to Paris in 1891 and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; he also studied with Léon Bonnat, among others. He returned to Quebec in 1894 but was back in Paris late in 1897. During the next several years he studied at the Académie Julian under John-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, and Tony Robert-Fleury as well as at the Académie Colarossi. He spent much of the rest of his career in Europe, but he also worked in Arthabaska and Montreal. Suzor-Coté was both a sculptor and painter, specializing in busts of Canadian ethnic types in the former medium and in landscapes and historical subjects in the latter. His final years were spent in Florida, where he retired in 1929. He died in 1937.Flanagan met Suzor-Coté while they were students in Bonnat's atelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It is not known why the title of this work is A Singer when it is a portrait of a practitioner of the plastic arts. The tilt of Suzor-Coté's head might be taken as suggesting the pose of a vocalist, but the firmly closed mouth is inconsistent with such a conception.
A plaster version of this sculpture is in a private collection in Canada.
n.d.
1960
