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Doris Caesar

Doris Porter Caesar (1892 - 1971) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Doris Caesar is known for Mod sculptor-figure-portrait.

Doris Porter Caesar, a sculptor of bronze figures, was once described by John I. H. Gauer as "an expressionist in the northern tradition. She owes an obvious debt to Lehmbruch and Barlach, and like them traces her sculptural ancestry back to the romantic elongations of . . . north Gothic art".

Porter was born in a fashionable neighborhood in Brooklyn. Her mother died when she was twelve, but she was very close to her successful and brilliant father, a lawyer with wide-ranging interests who took her with him on leisurely trips to Europe. He strongly supported her desire to be an artist, and by the age of sixteen she was already dividing her time between mornings at the proper Spence School for girls and afternoons in the bohemian atmosphere of the Art Students League. In the cafeteria of the League, she engaged in heated, "liberated" discussions of art and politics under the impetus of the Ash Can movement. In 1913, after four years of drawing (with George Bridgman) and painting,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3517 characters.]  Artist bio

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