TitleMask
Artist
James Earle Fraser
(American, 1876 - 1953)
Daten.d.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/2 × 6 3/8 × 7 1/4 in.
Other (Sculpture): 11 1/2 × 6 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.
Other (Base): 4 × 6 × 6 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, April 1, 1918
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number31-S
Label TextLorado Taft knew this head from a plaster version, probably the one now in the Art Institute of Chicago and which, in Taft's time (c. 1918), was kept in the trustees room of that institution. Taft found the work to be "especially fascinating" and was charmed by its "elfish" qualities. It could be viewed to advantage from almost any angle. "To everyone," he wrote, "-painters and sculptors alike- it gave a new revelation of the 'overtones' of modeling, the charm which favoring light reveals where a master has done his best."What was probably another version, owned by Mrs. Willard Straight, was exhibited at the Academy in the winter of 1914; the conception probably dates from that year or shortly before. A version, possibly either Mrs. Straight's or the Academy's, was shown in 1920 at the second annual exhibition of the New Society of Artists in New York.
n.d.
1960
1873
