Object Details
- Artist
- Elie Nadelman, born Warsaw, Poland 1882-died New York City 1946
- Gallery Label
- American popular culture transformed the classical sculpting style that Nadelman brought from Europe. The artist reveled in vaudeville and the circus and fell in love with the simple shapes and sly humor of American folk art, which he smoothly integrated into his carvings. This work was likely inspired by a photograph of the vaudeville star Eva Tanguay demonstrating a high, split kick from her routine. It is as elegantly carved as an archaic figure of a temple dancer but still conveys the impudent energy of the can-can.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Partial and promised gift of Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan
- ca. 1918-1919
- Object number
- 1999.102
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- painted cherry wood and gesso
- Dimensions
- 28 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (71.8 x 36.8 x 13 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure female\full length
- Performing arts\dance
- Record ID
- saam_1999.102
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk79d8f90a2-393b-4021-b62c-581423c4e93c
