Harvard Art Museums > 1969.160: E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) (Gaston Lachaise) , 1969.160,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 17, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/228158. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1969.160 People Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY) Title E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) Other Titles Alternate Title: Portrait bust of E.E. Cummings Classification Sculpture Work Type bust, sculpture Date 1927 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/228158 Physical Descriptions Medium Bronze Technique Cast Dimensions 36.83 x 21.59 cm (14 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: on back: G. Lachaise, Signed Date: 1927 Provenance Recorded Ownership History E. E. Cummings, 1927, to; his wife Marion M. Cummings, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969. NOTE: Cummings commissioned the cast from a plaster made in 1924. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marion M. Cummings Accession Year 1969 Object Number 1969.160 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1935), p. 12; checklist no. 22 Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, Eakin Press (New York, NY, 1967), reproduced in b/w no. 46 Acquisitions, 1969-1970, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), reproduced in b/w p. 105 Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, Braziller (New York, NY, 1974), p. 89, reproduced in b/w no. 28 Les Realismes: 1919-1939, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France, 1980), p. 523; reproduced in b/w p. 263 Richard S. Kennedy, E. E. Cummings Revisited, Twayne Publishers (New York, NY, 1994), reproduced in b/w fig. 15, p. 60 Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, "Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim Exhibition History Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 01/30/1935 - 03/07/1935 Gaston Lachaise Retrospective, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 11/05/1974 - 12/22/1974; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 01/26/1975 - 03/09/1975; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 05/01/1975 - 06/15/1975; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 07/12/1975 - 08/31/1975 Les Realismes, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Cedex 04, 12/17/1980 - 04/20/1981 American and British Figurative Art of the Inter-War Years, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/13/1992 - 12/31/1992 The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
