Innocence (Figure of Girl - Dahlov)
Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- William Zorach’s daughter Dahlov posed for many of his drawings and sculptures. He loved his children dearly and based much of his art on his relationships with them. Their “secret lives” and creative spirits particularly fascinated Zorach, so that when Dahlov began painting at an early age, he saved everything she ever made. When she was eighteen, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City produced a show of her work titled Exhibition of Creative Growth.
- Luce Object Quote
- “To hire a model and sit down to work has no meaning to me. My children, my wife, the animals I know, the people who enter my life . . . these are my material.” Artist’s statement, William Zorach, American Artists Group Monograph No. 15, 1945
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- 1928
- Object number
- 1968.154.143
- Artist
- William Zorach, born Eurburg, Lithuania 1889-died Bath, ME 1966
- Sitter
- Dahlov Zorach
- Dahlov Zorach
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- cast and patinated plaster
- Dimensions
- 49 1/8 x 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (124.8 x 21.6 x 26.0 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 47A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Topic
- Allegory\quality\innocence
- Portrait female\child
- Portrait female\nude
- Record ID
- saam_1968.154.143
