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Title:Seated Cat
Artist:William Zorach (American (born Lithuania), Jurbarkas (Eurburg) 1889–1966 Bath, Maine)
Date:1937
Medium:Granite
Dimensions:H:18 × W:9 × D:12 1/4 in. (45.7 × 22.9 × 31.1 cm) Weight: 78 lb. (35.4 kg)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1937
Object Number:37.121
Inscription: Signed (on base): Zorach
the artist, New York (1937; sold through the Municipal Art Committee, New York to MMA)
New York. American Fine Arts Society. "Second National Exhibition of American Art," June 16–July 31, 1937, no. 461.
New York. Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. "Nine Lives," February 23–April 2, 1949.
New York. Downtown Gallery. "William Zorach: A Selection 1914–1955," December 28, 1955–January 21, 1956, no. 8 (as "Male Cat," 1936).
San Antonio, Tex. Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. "William Zorach," May 27–June 24, 1956, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Junior Museum. "How to Look at Sculpture," September 16, 1960–June 24, 1962, no catalogue.
New York. American Academy of Arts and Letters. "William Zorach: Memorial Exhibition. Sculpture, Drawings, and Watercolors," February 28–March 30, 1969, no. 31.
Queens, N.Y. Queens Museum. "The Artist's Menagerie: Five Millennia of Animals in Art," June 29–August 25, 1974, no. 125.
New York. Zabriskie Gallery. "William Zorach (1889–1966): Animal Sculpture," November 12–December 7, 1974.
Queens Museum. "American Sculpture: Folk and Modern," March 12–May 8, 1977, no. 92.
Portland, Me. Portland Museum of Art. "Marguerite and William Zorach: Harmonies and Contrasts," November 8, 2001–January 6, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Cooperstown, N.Y. Fenimore Art Museum. "Folk Art and American Modernism," September 18–December 31, 2014, no catalogue.
New York. American Folk Art Museum. "Folk Art and American Modernism," July 18–September 27, 2015, no catalogue.
Preston Remington. "Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 32 (September 1937), p. 216.
"Maine Cat Lives on as Museum Statue." New York Times (July 7, 1937), p. 25, ill.
Howard Devree. "American Cross Section: The Municipal Art Committee Assembles Work From Every Part of the Union." New York Times (June 20, 1937), p. 143, calls it "Granite Cat".
"Museum Acquires 2 Lacquer Pieces." New York Times (September 13, 1937), p. 21.
"Tooky, Granite Cat by W. Zorach is Taken by Metropolitan Museum." Art Digest 11 (August 1937), p. 26.
Carlyle Burrows. "New York Sponsors the Nation's Art." New York Herald Tribune (June 20, 1937), p. F6, calls it "Granite Cat".
"Metropolitan Acquires Granite Cat by Zorach." New York Herald Tribune (July 7, 1937), p. 17A, ill.
"Metropolitan Buys Statue of Zorach." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 7, 1937), p. 15.
Paul S. Wingert. The Sculpture of William Zorach. New York, 1938, p. 65, no. 92, pl. 44.
American Artists Group, ed. William Zorach. New York, 1945.
Ann Pringle. "Cooper Union Shows 'Cat in Art and History'." New York Herald Tribune (February 17, 1949), p. 24.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. "Sculpture Survey, 1872–1925." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 10 (December 1951), p. 143, ill., calls it "Cat".
Judith Randal. "A Child's Portion of Art." New York Herald Tribune (January 29, 1961), p. D4.
Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, pp. 156, 158, ill.
Patricia Mainardi. American Sculpture: Folk and Modern. Exh. cat., Queens Museum. Flushing, 1977, unpaginated, no. 92, ill.
Ken Johnson. "Finding a Spiritual Inspiration in a Simpler Time." New York Times (July 3, 2015), p. C23.
William Zorach (American (born Lithuania), Jurbarkas (Eurburg) 1889–1966 Bath, Maine)
1927–30
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