Horse

Inscription: Signed (side of base): Elie Nadelman

Marking: Foundry mark (side of base, near horse's hind legs) ALEXIS RUDIER. / Fondeur PARIS

[Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, until 1923; sold on March 26, 1923 to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1936–82; his bequest to MMA)

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 70.

Worcester Art Museum. "Selections from the Dial Collection," November 13–30, 1965, unnum. checklist.

Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 100.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three: Twentieth-Century Art," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Small Bronzes," September 5, 2003–March 14, 2004, no catalogue.

Dial 85 (October 1928), ill. opp. p. 271.

Louisa Dresser in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 82, no. 70, ill.

Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, ill. between pp. 268 and 269.

Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 495, fig. 12.

Lincoln Kirstein. Elie Nadelman. New York, 1973, pp. 148, 200, 304–5, no. 180, colorpl. 51.

Patricia Boyd Wilson. "...And As Pure Music." Christian Science Monitor (April 14, 1977), p. 25, ill.

Eric Gibson. "Nadelman's World." New Criterion 6 (January 1988), p. 57, dates it 1914 [possibly this work].

Joan M. Marter in American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, pp. 693, 695–97, no. 329, ill.

Roberta K. Tarbell in A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach. Ed. Andrew J. Eschelbacher. Exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art. Portland, Me., 2017, p. 42.