Date : 1923
Material : Bronze
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1927)
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American Art
Sculpture (Statue)
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Around the turn of the twentieh century, statues of dancing women were produced in great numbers, inspired in part by the success of dancers Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller and Anna Pavlova. Shown stretching upward and outward in imitation of a vine, the dancer is poised in the ecstasy of performance. The first version of this work, an enormously popular twelve-and-a-half-inch-high statuette, was cast in an edition of 350. Frishmuth, along with Janet Scudder, Evelyn Beatrice Longman and Anna Hyatt Huntington, constituted a new generation of American women sculptors who achieved considerable fame working in the lingering Beaux-Arts style.
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