TitleBreakthrough
Artist
Leonda Finke
(American, 1922 - 2017)
Date1971 (cast 1988)
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 20 3/8 × 10 1/4 × 7 in.
Other (Sculpture): 19 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 7 in.
Other (Base): 7/8 × 7 11/16 × 6 1/2 in.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, April 20, 1994
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1994.7
Label TextSince the 1950s Finke has worked as a figurative sculptor and created images solely of women. She has been strongly inspired by the art of the German Expressionists. In the mid-1940s she studied at the Educational Alliance, where her teachers included Chaim Gross. Finke regularly pictures women on the brink of self-discovery, who appear to be breaking out of themselves like butterflies from a chrysalis.
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1960
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