Bust of Marsden Hartley

Artist:Jacques Lipchitz

Medium: Bronze, wood base

Dates:1942

Dimensions: Overall: 21 1/8 x 9 x 13 1/4 in. (53.7 x 22.9 x 33.7 cm) Base only: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (19.7 x 16.5 x 21 cm)

Collections:

• American Art

Museum Location: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

Exhibitions:

• Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection

Accession Number: 81.38

Catalogue Description:
Over life-sized bronze head of an older man on a square, wood base painted black; man looks straight ahead; hair in comb-over parted on proper left side; figure has large beaked nose, small closed mouth, and deep wrinkles around eyes and mouth; loose modeling. Condition: Good. Some white/greenish corrosion in crevices.

Brooklyn Museum