"The American Hand: Sculpture from Three Centuries" Exhibition

Driscoll Babcock Galleries

poster for "The American Hand: Sculpture from Three Centuries" Exhibition

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This exhibition is carefully curated from the gallery's holdings and includes works by such notable masters as Hiram Powers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, William Zorach, Seymour Lipton and Dorothy Dehner.

"Stories that attend the art we encounter are often as vivid as the art itself," observes John Driscoll in his introduction to the exhibition's full-color catalogue. The American Hand celebrates some of the greatest achievements of American sculptors and some of the great stories that accrue when works of art subsequently pass from hand to hand, collection to collection. "A work of art has its own life through time, through various additional hands, through generations…when the artist's work is done, the life of the work of art begins....”

Among the two dozen sculptures that compose this exhibition are Augustus Saint-Gauden's iconic 1899 "Diana of the Tower," which was originally modeled to stride atop Stanford White's new Madison Square Garden; Theodore Baur's poignant "The Buffalo Hunt," an 1876 commission for the United States Centennial Celebration; William Zorach's introspective female nude, "Young Woman," 1956 that Marilyn Monroe gave to her husband, Arthur Miller, as a Hanukkah gift; and the haunting Felix Weihs de Weldon BUST OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, commissioned by Mrs. Kennedy in the spring of 1963 a few months before his tragic assassination.

[Image: Paul Howard Manship "Young Minerva (Marietta)" (1911) bronze 13 x 6.5 x 6.5 in.]

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