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Title:Horse and Figure
Artist:Elie Nadelman (American (born Poland), Warsaw 1882–1946 Riverdale, New York)
Date:ca. 1912
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:7 3/4 × 10 3/4 × 1/4 in., 3.3 lb. (19.7 × 27.3 × 0.6 cm, 1.5 kg)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number:1984.433.37
Inscription: Signed (upper left): EN
[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)
New York. 291. "Sculpture and Drawings by Elie Nadelman," December 8, 1915–January 19, 1916, no catalogue [possibly this cast].
New York. Scott & Fowles. "Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Elie Nadelman," February 1917, no. 25 (as "Horse Resting") [possibly this work].
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 68.
New York. Downtown Gallery. "The Dial and the Dial Collection: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture & Graphics by Thirty American Artists," September 22–October 17, 1959, no. 27.
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. 101.
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. "American Relief Sculpture," August 15–November 5, 1995, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life," April 3–July 20, 2003, unnumbered cat. (fig. 64).
"Current News of Art and the Exhibitions." Sun (December 12, 1915), section 3, ill. p. 7, review of Exh. New York 1915–16 [possibly this work].
"Exhibition 'Arrangements' at '291'." Camera Work 48 (October 1916), p. 68, pl. VI (installation photo of Exh. New York 1915–16) [possibly this cast].
Louisa Dresser inThe Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 82, no. 68.
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 495.
Lincoln Kirstein. Elie Nadelman. New York, 1973, p. 198.
Joan M. Marter inAmerican 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, no. 327, ill. p. 694.
Roberta K. Tarbell inA 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, fig. 32 (color).
Elie Nadelman (American (born Poland), Warsaw 1882–1946 Riverdale, New York)
1906–8 (?)
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