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Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr.
192714 x 7 x 9 3/4 in. (35.5 x 17.8 x 24.7 cm)
Gaston Lachaise
United States (Paris, France, 1882 - 1935, New York, New York)
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Bronze
Credit Line:
Gift of a Friend of the Gallery, by exchange
Accession Number:
1990.3
Location: Not currently on view
Lachaise's friend, James Sibley Watson, Jr., was a member of MAG's founding family. This remarkably talented individual is best known for his editorship of the avant-garde publication "The Dial," where he worked with literary figures like e.e. cummings and Marianne Moore, as well as his early ventures into motion pictures, including the making of "The Fall of the House of Usher." Watson was married to Hildegarde Lasell Watson, who starred in the film and whose portrait sculpture by Lachaise is also owned by the Memorial Art Gallery (67.11).
[Gallery label text, 2005]
[Gallery label text, 2005]
Marks
Artist's signature, on neck, below left ear: G LACHAISE/1927 Foundry mark, on base: AMERICAN ART FDRY N.Y.
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by the Watson family
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Twenty Sculptures by Gaston Lachaise The Intimate Gallery 3/7/1927 - 4/3/1927
- Selections from the Permanent Collection Summer 1975
- Selected Work from the Art Collection of Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr. Memorial Art Gallery 8/19/1985 - 9/21/1985
- Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture 11/22/1985 - 2/16/1986
- Connoisseurs Around the Corner: Gifts of Art from MAG’s Founding Family Memorial Art Gallery 9/6/2013 - 1/19/2014
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: New Acquisition Honors Gallery Patron. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Issue Date: September-October 1990. Page Number: 7
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Scofield Thayer, ed. The Dial. New York, NY: Dial Publishing Company Volume Number: 80 Issue Date: January 1926.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Gerald Nordland. Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1979.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Author: McBride, Henry. Article Title: The Dial: an Adventure of the 1920s. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Art News. Page Number: 28-29
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Carolyn Kinder Carr and Margaret C. S. Christman. Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1985.
- Article Scope: Entry. Susan Dodge Peters. Selected Work From the Art Collection of Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr.. Rochester, NY: Bevier Gallery, RIT, 1985.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Nicholas Joost. Schofield Thayer and The Dial. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.
- Article Author: Culbert, Cynthia L.. Article Title: Gaston Lachaise: Fountain Figure. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 209
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Mrs. Hildegarde Lasell Watson. The Edge of the Woods. Rochester, NY: James S. Watson, Jr., 1979.
- Poetry through art: by the students of the Young Mothers Program. Fairport, NY: New York State Literacy Center, 1991.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Gerald Nordland. Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1974.
- Article Scope: Mention. Donald Bannard Goodall. Gaston Lachaise, sculptor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1969.
- Gaston Lachaise Sculptures. New York, NY: The Intimate Gallery, 1927.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
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