Aphrodite

1926

Rudulph Evans, Artist F. Barbedienne, Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title Aphrodite

Artwork Date 1926

Makers Rudulph Evans (Artist) American, 1878-1959 (Foundry) F. Barbedienne

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 67 inches (170.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Clarence Wooley

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 44.218

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Signed Inscribed, at right rear of base: R EVANS

Inscriptions Inscribed, at back of base: F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR, PARIS.

Provenance

1926-1928, the artist's studio;
1928-1944, Clarence M. Woolley [1863-1956] (Detroit, Michigan, USA; Greenwich, Connecticut, USA; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; Newport Beach, California, USA);
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Artists Well Known Here Lauded in Revue of Salon of 1926." Pantagraph 40 (August 24, 1926): Evans Family Papers.

"Salon de Printemps." Time 14 (June 1926): p. 18.

Cary, Elizabeth L. "General View of the Academy Exhibit." New York Times (December 4, 1927): p. xii.

Annual Exhibition-Winter. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. New York, 1927, no. 196.

Contemporary American Sculpture. Exh. cat., California Palace Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1929, no. 777. [as Venus Aphrodite]

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by the Living Artist Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Exh. cat., National Institute of Arts and Letters. New York, 1930, p. 35, no. 199.

American Architect and Architecture 143 (1933): p. 20.

Schnadelbach, R.T. Ferruccio Vitale: Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era. Princeton, 2001, p. 269 (ill.).

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