Descending Night, model by 1915, cast 1916

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 142.24 × 120.65 × 33.02 cm (56 × 47 1/2 × 13 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.3800

Artists / Makers

Adolph Alexander Weinman (sculptor) American, born Germany, 1870 - 1952

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Inscription

on back of the base, top: A. A. WEINMAN.FECIT.; on back of the base, bottom: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS. N.Y.; underside of base: No. 11 / 131

Marks and Labels

FM: Roman Bronze Works

Provenance

The artist; acquired 1968 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] See correspondence in NGA curatorial files concerning the Corcoran's acquisition of this sculpture and the artist's Rising Sun (NGA 2015.19.3801).

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Weinman, Adolph Alexander

Exhibition History

1946: Small Bronzes by American Sculptors, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1946 (continuing exhibition that opened 8 February 1930).

1979: The American Renaissance 1876-1917, Brooklyn Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Denver Art Museum, 13 October 1979 - 30 November 1980, no. 272, repro.

Bibliography

1915: "The Architectural League's Exhibition." Art and Progress (April 1915): n.p.

1940: Jackman, Rilla Evelyn. American Arts. New York, 1940: 428.