Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, January 20-February 13, 1949

Sub-Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

An exhibition of 35 sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries lent by private collectors in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exhibition also featured 6 textile samples lent by the gallery of San Francisco interior designer Robert M. Kasper.
The exhibition records span five folders and include an exhibition description, lender information, lender correspondence, registration receipts, and installation photographs. Installation photograph prints and negatives are in the photograph collection.

Dates

Creation: January 20-February 13, 1949

Creator

Bernfeld, Siegfried, 1892-1953 (Lender, Person)
Crocker, Helene Irwin, 1887-1966 (Lender, Person)
Crocker, William Willard, 1893–1964 (Lender, Person)
Grothe, Fritz (Mrs.) (Lender, Person)
Henderson, Jennie Adeline Crocker, 1887-1974 (Lender, Person)
Kasper's (Lender, Organization)
San Francisco Museum of Art (established 1935) (Lender, Organization)
Sloss, Hattie Hecht, 1874-1963 (Lender, Person)
Sutro, Maryellen O'Sullivan, 1864 - 1952 (Lender, Person)
Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964 (Artist, Person)
Barlach, Ernst, 1870-1938 (Artist, Person)
Baxter, John, 1912-1966 (Artist, Person)
Cravath, Ruth, 1902-1986 (Artist, Person)
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 (Artist, Person)
Dengen, Ida Day, 1888 - 1971 (Artist, Person)
Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997 (Artist, Person)
Gaudier Brezska, Henri, 1891-1915 (Artist, Person)
Howard, Charles, 1899-1978 (Artist, Person)
Howard, Robert Boardman, 1896-1983 (Artist, Person)
Katchamakoff, Atanas, 1898-1988 (Artist, Person)
Kent, Adaline, 1900-1957 (Artist, Person)
Krasnow, Peter, 1886-1979 (Artist, Person)
Lehmbruck, Wilhelm, 1881-1919 (Artist, Person)
Lovet-Lorski, Boris, 1894-1973 (Artist, Person)
Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 (Artist, Person)
Mestrovic, Ivan, 1883-1962 (Artist, Person)
Nadelman, Elie, 1882-1946 (Artist, Person)
O'Hanlon, Richard, 1906-1985 (Artist, Person)
Sazevich, Zygmund, 1899-1968 (Artist, Person)
Zorach, William, 1887-1966 (Artist, Person)

Restrictions

The price list must be redacted before viewing.

Biographical / Historical

In the latter half of the 19th century and the early-20th century, a movement called Modernism departed from the Neoclassical style. At this time, sculptors showed less interest in naturalism and paid more attention to stylization, form, and contrasting qualities of the surface of the material, as seen here in Head with Horns, seen here. Artists paid greater attention to psychological realism than to physical realism. Later, artists' interest in the psychological resulted in more abstractedly stylized sculpture (as in the work of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti).

In the later 20th century, many artists continued to work in traditional media but began to explore abstraction or simplification of form and to eliminate realistic details. Some artists removed their sculptures from traditional pedestals and instead hung the work on wires or cables to allow movement and create kinetic sculptures. Other sculptors began to explore new materials, using found or discarded objects to create what is now called assemblage. In the mid century, some sculptors orchestrated the construction of their works using cranes to piece together large-scale sculptures in wood, stone, and metal. Other artists, valuing the idea or concept behind a work of art over the actual object, took a more hands-off approach in their work and created drawings and designs for art works, which were then fabricated by others.

Source:
“Working with Sculpture (Education at the Getty).” n.d. https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/sculpture/background1.html#:~:text=The%20earliest%20known%20works%20of,possible%20spiritual%20or%20religious%20purposes.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (The exhibition records span five folders and include an exhibition description, lender information, lender correspondence, registration receipts, and installation photographs. Installation photograph prints and negatives are in the photograph collection.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Arrangement

The materials are separated by content and type and organized chronologically.

Related Exhibitions

de Young: First Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by California Artists (1915)
de Young: Second Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by California Artists (1916)
Legion of Honor: Exhibition of Modern Art (1927)
Legion of Honor: Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association of Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts (1931)
Legion of Honor: Exhibition of Garden Sculpture by Members of the Art Center of San Francisco and Sculpture by Californians (1931)
Legion of Honor: Art Center Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture (1933)
de Young: Paintings and Sculpture (Federal Art Project) (1937)
Legion of Honor: Sculpture Lesson (1949)
de Young: Sculpture in Our Time Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1960)
de Young: Third Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings (1960)
de Young: San Francisco Art Institute Artist Members' Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, and Prints (1962)
Legion of Honor: The J.D. Zellerbach Memorial Competition In Sculpture (1965)
Legion of Honor: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Sculpture from the Museum's Permanent and Loan Collections (1967)
de Young: American Graphics, Reliefs, and Sculptures from Gemini G.E.L. from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Anderson (1971)
Legion of Honor: American Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1982)
Legion of Honor: Masterworks of Modern Sculpture: The Nasher Collection (1997)

Separated Materials

Installation photograph prints and negatives are housed in the Legion of Honor Exhibition Photograph collection in box 5.