Steel into the Skies

1932

Max Kalish American, 1891 - 1945

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About the Artwork

Title Steel into the Skies

Artwork Date 1932

Artist Max Kalish

Life Dates 1891 - 1945

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 20 × 5 × 11 inches (50.8 × 12.7 × 27.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Museum Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund and Edward E. Rothman Fund

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. 2004.15

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, along the base: M KALISH | 32

Marks Stamped along edge of base: Meroni Radice Paris | cire perdue

Provenance

James Graham and Sons Gallery, (New York, New York, USA);
John Axelrod, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
Gerald Peters Gallery, (New York, New York, USA);
2004-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lewis, N. Lawson. The Sculpture of Max Kalish. Cleveland, 1933, no. 20 [ill. of an unidentified example].

Labor Sculpture by Max Kalish. New York, 1938 [ill. of an unidentified example].

Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939. Austin, 1989, pp. 91-92 [ill. of another example in a private collection].

Fort, Ilene Susan et al. The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity. Los Angeles, 1995, p. 206 (pl. 59). [ill. of another example in the Cleveland Museum of Art].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Max Kalish, Steel into the Skies, 1932, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund and Edward E. Rothman Fund, 2004.15.