Diana of the Chase

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Diana of the Chase
Diana of the Chase
Diana of the Chase
TitleDiana of the Chase
Artist (1876-1973)
Date1922
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 99 × 36 × 23 in., 881lb. Other (Base): 2 3/8 × 19 × 19 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of the artist, 1948
Object number60-S
Label TextIn 1922, shortly after this life-size figure was modeled, it won the Academy's Saltus Medal for Merit and was exhibited in that year's annual. The replica now in the collection of Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, originally stood in a dining-room niche in the Huntington home on Fifth Avenue.

"Diana" is balanced on an orb, probably a symbolic representation of her other manifestation as goddess of the Moon. In her stretching, turning, and spiraling movement, she serves well as the focal point of a garden fountain, which is her purpose at Brookgreen Gardens. At the Academy, she has almost become a symbol of the institution, standing as she has for many years on the ground floor in the rotunda, on a line with the front door, and thus fully visible from the street.

Although this cast has no visible founder's mark, the one at Brookgreen bears the stamp of the Kunst Foundry, New York, and it may be assumed that most, if not all, of the replicas were cast there. In addition to the casts at the Academy and Brookgreen Gardens, replicas are held by: the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; the University of Texas, Austin; Jardin des Lices, Blois, France; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; New-York Historical Society; Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana; Ueno Park, Tokyo; University City, Jardin Fuente de Diana, Madrid.

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