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Sculpture
Windy Doorstep
Mary Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, (Webster City, IA, 1878 - 1942, New York, NY)
Eberle, Mary Abastenia St. Leger
United States
1878 - 1942
Female
13 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (34.9 x 24.1 x 17.1 cm)
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Bronze
Bronze
1910
1910
1910
Sculpture
While [Gaston] Lachaise’s sculptures portrayed idealized subjects or specific individuals, Eberle often depicted realistic figures she saw on the streets of New York.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
An avid suffragist and social advocate, Mary Abastenia St. Leger Eberle spent much of her artistic career depicting the daily lives of tenement residents in New York City. While a great deal of Eberle’s sculptures depicted urban subjects, Windy Doorstep renders a woman who lived near Eberle’s cottage in Woodstock, New York. As in much of Eberle’s works, the gestural expressions captured here are of a working-class subject: the figure braces herself against the billowing current, immersed in the demands of the task at hand. The doorstep becomes a stage, upon which the beauty and strength of the mundane is memorialized.
[Summer 2023, Adam Ranz]
underside, Base coat: acryloid B-72 in acetone
Number: acrylic paint
Top coat: acryloid B-67 in napthaon top of base
2004.14
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/5/2004
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