Exhibitions: Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture by Jane Poupelet

Spring approximately 1933: A Memorial Exhibition of Drawing and Sculpture by Jane Pouplet one of the leading modern sculptors will open at the Brooklyn Museum the 1st of March to continue on exhibition through March 31st.

Various examples of her work have been shown here at the galleries and pieces of her sculpture are owned by the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums. Her well-known “Vache Marchant” and the “Femme a sa Toilette” and some her drawings are placed in the Luxembourg in Paris.

Her talent was early evidences in her native town of Perigod where when still a small child, she began to model in clay. She began her studies seriously in the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and continued then under Schnegg at the Academie Julian in Paris. Her work attracted the attention of the master Rodin who it is said gave her considerable encouragement and assisted her in the arrangement of her first exhibitions.

Her studios of the feminine figure gradually gave way to the interpretations of animal subjects which became her chief endeavor. Preserving in these animal subjects all the fine balance of her other sculpture work she invested them with the character of the animal full of vitality, as well as rich with esthetic design.

An indefatigable worker Mlle. Pouplet gave to all her bronzes a personal supervision in the casting, and afterward worked on them with her chisel giving to each cast an individuality not of ten possible in mechanical casting.

Among those lending examples of this artist’s work to the exhibition are, Miss Janet Soudder; Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt; Mrs. Stanford White; Mr. George Acheson; Edith P. Morgan; Montross Galleries; Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute of Chicago; Lawrence Grant White; Mr. Frank Crownshield and others.

Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1916 - 1930. 01-03_1933, 021. View Original