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Title:Tango
Artist:Elie Nadelman (American (born Poland), Warsaw 1882–1946 Riverdale, New York)
Date:ca. 1917–18
Medium:Ink and wash on paper
Dimensions:9 9/16 × 6 7/16 in. (24.3 × 16.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1965
Accession Number:65.12.10
the artist, Riverdale, N.Y. (until d. 1946); his widow, Mrs. Elie Nadelman, Riverdale, N.Y. (from 1946); Lincoln Kirstein, New York (by 1964–65; his gift to MMA)
Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Art Museum. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–April 21, 1985, unnumbered cat. (p. 21).
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 5–June 30, 1985, unnumbered cat.
New York. National Academy of Design. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 16–September 1, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Evanston, Ill. Terra Museum of American Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 15–November 10, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 12, 1985–January 19, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–March 30, 1986, unnumbered cat.
St. Paul. Minnesota Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 20–June 8, 1986, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Sculptors' Drawings: 1900–1935," November 10, 1994–March 26, 1995, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life," April 3–July 20, 2003, unnumbered cat. (fig. 149).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Small Bronzes," September 5, 2003–March 14, 2004, no catalogue.
Lincoln Kirstein. Elie Nadelman Drawings. New York, 1949, p. 51, no. 47, ill. n.p.
Lincoln Kirstein. Elie Nadelman. New York, 1973, pp. 150, 316, pl. 109, calls it "Dancing Couple" and dates it about 1917–19.
Lowery Stokes Sims. The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Jacksonville Art Museum. New York, 1984, pp. 13, 20–21, ill., calls it "Dancing Couple".
Richard Martin. "Elie Nadelman, 'Tango'." Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900–1950, Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ed. Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg. New York, 1999, p. 199.
Shirley Reece-Hughes inA New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach. Ed. Andrew J. Eschelbacher. Exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art. Portland, 2017, p. 33, discusses this work as part of a "sequence of drawings that documented a couple movng to virtually every step of the dance," including "Study for 'Tango'," ca. 1917 (The Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, *MGZGA Nad E Tan 2).
Elie Nadelman (American (born Poland), Warsaw 1882–1946 Riverdale, New York)
1906–8 (?)
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