Augusta Hartman (Girl with Bobbed Hair)

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Augusta Hartman (Girl with Bobbed Hair)

Artist Gaston Lachaise (French, 1882-1935)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1923

Dimensions14 1/2 × 6 3/4 × 7 in. (36.8 × 17.1 × 17.8 cm)

MediumBronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Caroline MacNichol Orser

Object number

2010.27

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Label TextGerman-born Augusta Hartman, known as Gusta, is presented here as a modern woman with her fashionable short hair and assertive pose. An artist herself, Gusta was married to American painter Bertram Hartman and moved in impressive artistic and literary circles (Ernest Hemingway once started, though never finished, a story about her). French-born Gaston Lachaise, who began his career in Paris working for glass and jewelry designer René Lalique, moved to the United States in 1906. By 1912, he was working for American sculptor Paul Manship, with whom his work shares a certain sleek modernity. In the 1920s, Lachaise did a series of tabletop portrait sculptures of his friends and acquaintances, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, and e.e. cummings. He is best known, however, for his sculptures exploring the archetypal female nude form.Published References

Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings, Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery, 1979, no. 14, pp. 13, 30.

Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, Art for Collectors V, Nov. 12-Dec. 17, 1978.

Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings, Jan. 20-Mar. 4, 1979.

Comparative ReferencesSee also McBride, Henry, “Modern Art,” The Dial, Vol. 75, December 1923, p. 621. cf. Carr, Carolyn Kinder and Margaret C.S. Christman, Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C., 1985-86, p.70, repr. p. 71.