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Gaston Lachaise

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Gaston Lachaise (1882 - 1935) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Gaston Lachaise is known for Sculpture-caricature nude, sketches.

Born in Paris, Gaston Lachaise became a sculptor, whose signature work was larger-than-life abstract, erotic female figures who were nude and reclining or standing, had pendulous breasts and large stomachs. Some of them were acrobatic and others were floating figures in fountains. He also did an occasional male nude as well as portrait busts.

Gaston Lachaise was the son of a master cabinet-maker and wood carver with whom he trained. At age 13, he enrolled in the Bernard Palissy School to study sculpture and at age 16 in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He also worked for Rene Lalique of the famous glass making family.

In 1906, he arrived in Boston where he worked for Henry Hudson Kitson. He became enamored with Isabel Dutaud Nagle, and she, 10 years older than he, became the passion of his art and life. He then established a studio in New York where he repeatedly sculpted the figure of Isabel. His major artistic influence was Paul Manship, whom he served in New York as a studio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6897 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  154
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Gaston Lachaise
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Williams College Museum of Art June 2004 Stomberg, John R Yes
Art & Auction Around the Block June 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTFORUM Best of 2002, A Special Issue December 2002 Editors, Artforum Yes
Art & Auction Datebook: "Treasures of the Past" February 2002 Editor, Art & Auction No
Art & Auction The Art Show February 2000 Adams, Rebecca Knapp Yes
Art in America Freeing the Figure April 1996 Duncan, Michael No
American Art Review Gaston Lachaise: The Monumental October 1995 Morgan, Anne Barclay Yes
154 Book References for Gaston Lachaise
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Roussel, Christine The Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center 159 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2002 Rosenfeld, Lucy D A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry 288 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1994 Tarbell, Roberta K. Robert Laurent and American Figurative Sculpture 1910-1960 Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 55 No
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Oldenburg, Richard/W Rubin The William S Paley Collection Museum of Modern Art 180 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Updike, John Just Looking Essays on Art 210 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
1987 Brutvan, Cheryl Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 168 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1987 Saint Louis Art Museum The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947 225 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Karp, Ivan (intro) The Sturman Collection Twentieth-Century Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Carr, Carolyn K/M Christman Gaston Lachaise Portrait Sculptur
(Exhibition catalog)		 170 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Jones, Caroline Modern Art at Harvard Formation of the 19th & 20th Cen Collections 144 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Clark-Langager, Sarah Order and Enigma
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)		 113 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 106 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Schwartz, Sanford The Art Presence 246 No
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Lieberman, William (editor) An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Ritchie, Margaret Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection 304 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Carlson, Victor/Carol Smith Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(Exhibition catalog)		 199 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Eisler, Colin American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 38 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Lieberman, William S Art of the Twenties
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1979 Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930 96 Yes
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Hirschl & Adler Galleries The Eye of Stieglitz 84 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Pomona College Works on Paper 1900-1960 From Southern California Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 132 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1976 McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee The Golden Door Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976 432 Yes
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Kramer, Hilton The Age of the Avant-Garde An Art Chronicle 1956-1972 617 No
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Heyer, George S Jr Not So Long Ago Art of the 1920s in Europe & America
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Karpel, Bernard/Walt Kuhn The Armory Show International Exhibition of Art 1913
(Exhibition catalog)		 286 No
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1969 Lieberman, William Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 139 Yes
1969 Museum of Modern Art Editors American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined)
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 Potter, Margaret/Evan Turner Selections from the Collection T Edward Hanley
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)		 209 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Breeskin, Adelyn D Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930 (Smithsonian Institution)
(Exhibition catalog)		 84 Yes
1965 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters 141 Yes
1965 Museum of Northern Arizona The American Collection Representative Paintings/Phoenix Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1964 Hoopes, Donelson F (Introduction); August Heckscher, (Foreward) Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (Exhibition: The Gallery at the Better Living Center, May22-October 18, 1964)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1963 Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953 178 Yes
1963 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard 20th Century Master Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1963 Goodrich, Lloyd Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920 94 Yes
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1963 Vigtel, Gudmund The New Tradition Modern Americans Before 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1963 Whitney Museum The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Breeskin, Adelyn D 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art 93 No
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1954 Barr, Alfred H Jr Masters of Modern Art 239 Yes
1952 Corcoran Gallery of Art Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1948 Gardner, Helen Art Through the Ages (Third Edition) 851 Yes
1947 M Knoedler & Company Gaston Lachaise 1882-1935 18 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1946 Whitney Museum Pioneers of Modern Art in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1942 Mellquist, Jerome The Emergence of an American Art 421 No
1942 Wheeler, Monroe 20th Century Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1939 Art Institute of Chicago Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 110 No
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1935 Kirstein, Lincoln Gaston Lachaise Retrospective Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 50 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro) Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1934 Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934) 110 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1932 Museum of Modern Art American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932
(Exhibition catalog)		 135 No
1929 La Follette, Suzanne Art in America 361 No
1928 Pach, Walter Modern Art in America 69 No
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