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DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: Flesh in Ecstasy: Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved, 2009
David Bagnall and George Stoney
April 4, 2024
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Modigliani and the Modern Portrait
Nassau County Museum of Art
July 22-November 5, 2023
Gaston Lachaise: Immigrant in Greenwich Village
October 20, 2021, 6pm
Virtual guest lecture given by Paula Hornbostel, as part of the Artists & Immigrants series
Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, New York, NY
Standing Woman, 1912-27, on view "The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965"
June 28, 2019–May 2022
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Short-Tailed Peacock, 1920, at
The Society of The Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
Philip Hulitar Sculpture Gardens, on The Four Arts campus.
Floating Woman, 1927, installation in Hunters Point South Park
Dedication ceremony September 24, 2020,
on view through September 2021
Hunters Point South Park, Long Island City, Queens NY
Oliver Beer includes the Head of Scofield Thayer in his "Vessel Orchestra" at the Met Breuer
"This boat sings a G," he said, pointing at a Chinese dragon-boat vase. "This earthenware temple by William Wyman, from 1977, that’s a beautful F, and this very early portrait bust by Gaston Lachaise is our A-flat."
Read More: Adam Gopnik, "Making Music From the Met’s Forgotten Treasures," New Yorker, August 19, 2019.
Lachaise scholar Franck Joubin speaks in sculpture symposium at the Musée Rodin, Paris
On 14 June, 2019 Lachaise scholar Franck Joubin spoke on Gaston Lachaise (15:45) at the Musée Rodin in this seven-day Young Scholars sculpture symposium.
Stoddard Art Lecture: Gaston Lachaise and his American Muse
Presented by Paula Hornbostel
April 24, 2019 at 6:30 PM
New Canaan Library, Lamb Room; New Canaan, CT
Library Information
Long-Term Installation, 2013-2019
Floating Woman, 1927 and
Dans la Nuit, 1935
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
In Memoriam
Gerald Nordland (1927–2019)
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Drawings of Gaston Lachaise
December 18, 2018–January 25, 2019
National Arts Club, Marquis Gallery
New York, NY
2018
Harvard Art Journal
Harvard Art Journal, vol 6, May 2018
Features Paula R. Hornbostel (AB 93) p.2, My Interview with Louise Bourgeois, March 21, 1993. Illustrated.
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Anything Goes: The Jazz Age
March 24-July 8, 2018
Includes 13 works on loan from the Lachaise Foundation, with two by E E Cummings.
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach
Organized by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
May 26–September 8, 2017
Press: Press Herald, June 11, 2017
Boston Herald, June 29, 2017
Maine Public, 2017
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
October 14 2017–January 7, 2018
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
February 17-May 13, 2018
Press: Art and Antiques, February 2018
Star-Telegram, February 1, 2018
Dallas News, March 4, 2018
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Collections in Focus, “The Many Muses of Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor at Kykuit,” lecture by Paula Hornbostel
May 31, 2017, 10:30am
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2016
"Lachaise's America in Bronze and Stone," presentation by Virginia Budny,
at IAC's 21st Annual American Art Conference: To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21st Century,
CUNY Graduate Center, New York
May 21, 2016
Lecture by Paula Hornbostel: 'Garden Art Talk: Figures, Fountains and Peacocks; Lachaise Garden Sculpture, 1920-1935’
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, NY
April 28, 2016, 7:30pm
More Information | Info about NYC Parks Department
'Amplification and Simplification:’ Lachaise Drawings Lecture
New York Studio School, Nre York, NY
March 21 - April 21
Opening Reception: March 24 2016
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Gaston Lachaise: David Findlay, Jr. Gallery
January 7-February 13, 2016
724 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Opening Reception: January 14, 2016, 5-7pm
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2015
July 2015 The Lachaise Foundation's office moved from 101 Federal Street in Boston to 575 Madison Avenue, 8th floor, Suite 211, New York NY 10022
Art in the Garden: The Peacocks of Gaston Lachaise
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum's web article in conjunction with installation.
November 19, 2015
Read the Article | Installation views
Strut: The Peacock in Art, Fashion, & Culture,
Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art: The Hudson River Museum
October 11, 2014-January 18, 2015.
Images & Information
2014
Cet obscur objet de désirs. Autour de L’Origine du Monde
(This Dark Object of Desire, Around The Origin of the World)
June 7-September 1, 2014
Musee Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France
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Gaston Lachaise and Louise Bourgeois: A Juxtaposition
March 5-9, 2014
Cheim & Read Gallery at
The Art Show, ADAA
Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street, New York
Catalogue with Digital preview
Trophy Art and Curated Booths at ADAA’s Art Show
Plus, taxidermied peacocks, a portrait studio and an $11 million Francis Bacon painting.
New York Observer Article
2013
MAN / WOMAN
Gaston Lachaise Portland Art Museum, Oregon
June 8-September 8, 2013
"Gaston Lachaise at Portland Art Museum," Art in America, Reviews by Sue Taylor, November 26, 2013: www.artinamericamagazine.com
LECTURE Paula Hornbostel: The Development of 'Woman' in the Art of Gaston Lachaise
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Sunday June 9, 2013 — click here to watch
2012
Face and Figure: The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise
Bruce Museum
Greenwich, CT
September 22, 2012—January 6, 2013
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One Hundred Years Ago:
Statuette (Nude with Coat), 1912.
Exhibited in the International Exhibition of Modern Art, "The Armory Show," February 17-March 15, 1913.
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WINNER
Caption Contest New Yorker Cover from December 8, 1928
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Susan Hodara reviews Face & Figure:
EXHIBITION The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise,
New York Times, 9/28/2012
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November 29, 2012
LECTURE Hascoe Lecture Series: Love in 2-D: Letters of Gaston Lachaise to His Muse, Model and Wife, Isabel
Paula R. Hornbostel, Curator and Trustee for the Lachaise Foundation
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
LECTURE Hascoe Lecture Series: Sex in 3-D, Women in Sculpture: Lachaise & His Legacy
Dr. Joan Pachner
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September 9, 2011–May 31, 2012
PRESS "Une oeuvre de Gaston Lachaise au Tramway Plaza a New York"
by Mylène Hassany, France-Amerique, Lundi, 22 Octobre, 2012.
(Link no longer available) | press release
August 10, 2012–September 22, 2012
EXHIBITION Santa Fe, Gaston Lachaise: A Modern Epic Vision
September 23, 2011–September 16, 2012
INSTALLATION La Montagne, 1934, comes to The Tramway Plaza (59th and Second Avenue), New York City.
location map | photos | press release
Press: Village Voice, DNAinfo.com, NY Post
August 2012 and November–December 2012
EXHIBITION Gerald Peters Gallery to host Gaston Lachaise exhibition, Santa Fe and New York
gallery information
2011
October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012
EXHIBITION "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
installation photo | exhibition info | NY Social Diary article
October 5, 2011–January 1, 2012
EXHIBITION "Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876–1936"
photo | museum information
Summer 2011
EXHIBITION Lachaise at Moma: Floating Figure, 1927, in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at Moma.
photo | MOMA information
SPECIAL LECTURES Powerpoint Slide Lecture by Paula R. Hornbostel, Curator of the Lachaise Foundation, "A Flower on Her Breakfast Tray, A Sculpture in Her Garden: Gaston and 'Madame' Lachaise in Georgetown, 1906-1935"
Monday, June 13th 4pm, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Distinguished Lecturer, Docents Annual Meeting in conjunction with "Maine Moderns, Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940," curated by Susan Danly and Libby Bischof.
Sunday, June 26th 1:30 pm, Georgetown Historical Society, 20 Baypoint Rd. Georgetown, Maine, in conjunction with the exhibition "Georgetown Goes Modern, The Modern Art Movement Meets an Island Community."
March 8–June 5, 2011
EXHIBITION Lachaise's monumental Standing Woman (Heroic Woman), 1932, (LF92) is featured in: Heroínas from Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, and Fundación Caja Madrid, March 8–June 5, 2011
The exhibition Heroínas looks at the depiction of women in active roles and at the gender identity crisis in western art [...] offering a thematic survey of the depiction of woman as active subject.
2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
SCREENING "Flesh in Ecstasy: Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved," a film by David Bagnall and George C. Stoney, will be shown at 7pm in the Avery Room, Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media in the Bobst Library on Washington Square, New York.
November 29–December 2, 2010
EVENT The Gerald Peters Gallery will be featuring the works of Gaston Lachaise at The American Art Fair at the National Academy, 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York. Public hours: daily 12–6pm.
October 28, 2010–April 10, 2011
Lachaise in "Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
January 2010
The Lachaise Foundation is exclusively represented by
Gerald Peters Gallery of New York and Santa Fe
January 12–April 30, 2010
EXHIBITION Woman: The Art of
Gaston Lachaise travels to Naples, Florida
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
Museum Information
Donald Miller, Naples News, February 10, 2010 (article not available)
2009
September 26, 2009 FILM EVENT
Including a screening of Flesh in Ecstasy:
Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved, 2009
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Starting March 2009 NOW AVAILABLE
Gaston Lachaise 1882–1935
The catalogue of an exhibition that toured
Europe and the U.S. from 2003–2007
February 27, 2009 FILM EVENT
Screening of Flesh in Ecstasy:
Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved, 2009
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
Starting October 2008 SPECIAL INSTALLATION
Standing Woman, 1932, on loan to the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
1993
Standing Woman, Gaston Lachaise
Hillary Clinton launched the White House Sculpture Garden in 1993, drawing some criticism for including this massive sculpture of a nude woman.