Object Details
Artist
Gaston Lachaise, 19 Mar 1882 - 18 Oct 1935
Foundry
Modern Art Foundry
Sitter
Marianne Moore, 15 Nov 1887 - 5 Feb 1972
Exhibition Label
Born St. Louis, Missouri
Poet Marianne Moore’s manifesto “Poetry” (1919) begins: “I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” Moore’s keenly observed descriptions of humans and animals appear in early poems such as “A Jelly-Fish,” published in 1909, when she was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College.
Moore was among the few early twentieth-century women poets to gain popular acceptance—a testament both to the precise dynamism of her modernist verse as well as to her male peers’ bias. In 1952, her Collected Poems (1951) won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Nacida en St. Louis, Misuri
Marianne Moore inicia su manifiesto “Poesía” (1919) así: “A mí tampoco me gusta: hay cosas importantes más allá de esta tramoya”. Sus agudas observaciones sobre los humanos y los animales aparecen ya en poemas tempranos como “Una medusa”, publicado en 1909, cuando estudiaba en Bryn Mawr College.
Moore fue una de las pocas mujeres poetas de principios del siglo XX que lograron aceptación popular, prueba a la vez del atinado dinamismo de su verso modernista y de los prejuicios de sus colegas hombres. En 1952, su Poesía completa (1951) obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer y el Premio Nacional del Libro.
Provenance
(Robert Schoelkopf Gallery), New York; purchased NPG 1974
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Date
1924 (cast 1974)
Object number
NPG.74.40
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Estate of Gaston Lachaise
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
With Base: 44.8 x 19.1 x 23.8cm (17 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 9 3/8")
Base: 9.5 x 19.1 x 19.1cm (3 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2")
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Location
Currently not on view
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Topic
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Record ID
npg_NPG.74.40