Classical Head
date: label: Date
content: (c. 1909)
name: label: Artist
content: Elie Nadelman, American, b. Warsaw, Poland, 1882–1946
notes: label: Provenance
content: Senator Clarence Watson
label: Provenance
content: George W. Fleming, New York
label: Provenance
content: Children of Brooks Fleming, 1956 (see provenance data of telephone conversation with Mrs. Fleming, 28 August 1973 in provenance file)
label: Provenance
content: Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, 1957 (on consignment to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1964)
label: Provenance
content: M. Knoedler & Co., to 30 September 1964
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 30 September 1964-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: GALERIE DRUET, Paris."Elie Nadelman," 26 April-8 May 1909.
label: Exhibition History
content: GREAT HALL Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 11 June 1974.
label: Exhibition History
content: WHITNEY MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, New York [organizer]. "The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman," 23 September-30 November 1975, no. 23, ill. p. 37. Tour: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 18 December-15 February 1976.
label: Exhibition History
content: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life," 3 April-20 July 2003, cat.
label: Published References
content: SPEAR, ATHENA TACHA. "Elie Nadelman's Early Heads (1905-1911)," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 28, no.3 (Spring 1971), p. 216, ill. 16.
label: Published References
content: UNSIGNED. "Acquisition of Modern Art by Museums," Burlington Magazine 114, no. 832 (July 1972), p. 509.
label: Published References
content: KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. Elie Nadelman (New York: Eakins, 1973), no. 20 (as Ideal Head).
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66.3782
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Marble on serpentine base
label: Dimensions
content: 12 5/8 × 8 3/8 × 9 in. (32.1 × 21.3 × 22.9 cm) on base 5 1/2 in. (14 cm) high