Tag: Norfolk

Man / Gaston Lachaise, modeled 1930-34, cast 1938 / Bronze

This imposing statue is about 8.5 feet tall (2.5 m); from its pedestal it looms nearly 10 feet over the gallery. Lachaise died at age 53 without seeing it cast. There is evidence that Walter P. Chrysler commissioned the first cast from the E. Gargani and Sons foundry in Brooklyn for installation in the family garden. Thee additional casts were made that are now held by the Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown, New York, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Lachaise Foundation in Boston.   

For several years after Chrysler made a gift of his astonishing private collection to the museum, this work was prominently situated on the museum grounds facing a major road ― undoubtedly putting more monumentally-scaled male genitalia in plain view than the locals were used to seeing.   

At the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.

Man / Gaston Lachaise, modeled 1930-34, cast 1938 / Bronze

This imposing statue is about 8.5 feet tall (2.5 m); from its pedestal it looms nearly 10 feet over the gallery. Lachaise died at age 53 without seeing it cast. There is evidence that Walter P. Chrysler commissioned the first cast from the E. Gargani and Sons foundry in Brooklyn for installation in the family garden. Thee additional casts were made that are now held by the Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown, New York, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Lachaise Foundation in Boston.   

For several years after Chrysler made a gift of his astonishing private collection to the museum, this work was prominently situated on the museum grounds facing a major road ― undoubtedly putting more monumentally-scaled male genitalia in plain view than the locals were used to seeing.   

At the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.