Elie Nadelman's "Orchestra Conductor"

Provenance

Mrs. Elie Nadelman (Estate of the Artist), Riverdale, New York, from 1946-after 1948

Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, by 1951-17 April 1957

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 17 April 1957-15 May 1966

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Exhibition History

[E. GIMPEL WILDENSTEIN, New York. "Second Annual Exhibition of the New Society of Artists," 8-27 November (n.d.), ill. p. 52 (as Chef d'orchestra).]

[MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "The Sculpture of Elie Nadelman," 5 October-28 November 1948, cat. by Lincoln Kirstein, no. 20, p. 52, ill. p. 32. Tour: INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Boston, 11 March-24 April 1949; BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, 1949.]

EDWIN HEWITT GALLERY, New York. "Wood Sculpture by Elie Nadelman," 28 November-22 December 1951, cat. by Lincoln Kirstein, no. 7.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 342.

ZABRISKIE GALLERY, New York. "Elie Nadelman," 7 February-4 March 1967, no. 14.

LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY, Austin. "Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 4 October 1974-5 January 1975.

WHITNEY MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, New York [organizer]. "The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman," 23 September-30 November 1975, no. 69, ill. p. 76. Tour: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 18 December-15 February 1976.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976," 20 May-20 October 1976, no. 60, color ill. p. 185.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Variations on a Musical Theme: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 22 July-5 September 1982.

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, New York [organizer]. "Elie Nadelman: Classical Folk." Tour: MCNAY ART MUSEUM, San Antonio, 8 June-2 September 2001; FRICK ART MUSEUM, Pittsburgh, 21 September-16 December.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life," 3 April-20 July 2003, cat.

Published References

[MURELL, WILLIAM. Elie Nadelman (Woodstock, New York: William M. Fisher, 1923), no. 3, ill.]

[KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. The Sculpture of Elie Nadelman (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1948), p. 52, ill. p. 32.]

KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of the Dance," Dance Index 7/6 (1948), ills, p. 148.

RUDIKOFF, SONYA. "New York Letter," Art International 6/9 (25 November 1962), p. 62.

KRAMER, HILTON. "Nadelman's Achievement," New York Times (11 February 1967), p. 24.

MELLOW, JAMES R. "New York," Art International 11/4 (20 April 1967), p. 62.

KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. Elie Nadelman (New York: Eakins Press, 1973), pp. 215, 220-221, 300, no. 137, ill. 79.

UNSIGNED. The Art Gallery Scene 19/1 (November 1975), cover (credit inside cover).

WERNER, ALFRED. "Nadelman Redivivus," Art and Artists 10/8 (November 1975), p. 6.

ARMSTRONG, TOM, et al. 200 Years of American Sculpture (New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1976), ill. p. 95.

THURSTON, LAURA. "In Praise of Immigrant Artists," America Illustrated 248 (July 1977), color pl. p. 26.

TARBELL, ROBERTA K. "Three Modernist Wood Sculptures," Draft Article for Amon Carter Museum Bulletin (September 1989), p. 6.

GIBSON, ERIC. "Museum pursues new look," Washington Times (20 December 1992).

MCALLISTER, JANE, ed. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996), ill.

ANTLIFF, ALLAN. "Cosmic Modernism: Elie Nadelman, Adolf Wolff, and the Materialist Aesthetics of John Weichsel," Archives of American Art Journal, 38 / 3&4 (1998), ill. p. 26.

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Artist

Elie Nadelman, American, b. Warsaw, Poland, 1882–1946

Date

(1918-1919, carved 1919-23)

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Medium

Cherry wood, gesso, paint, and graphite

Dimensions

38 1/2 × 21 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (97.8 × 54 × 29.8 cm)

Type

Sculpture