Gaston Lachaise: Brief Chronology
1882 Born in Paris, March 19.
1895 Enters Ecole Bernard Palissy to study sculpture.
1898 Enters the Acadernie Nationale des Beaux-Arts to
study in the Atelier Gabriel Jules Thomas.
1899-1903 Exhibits in the annual Salon. Military Service.
Meets Isabel Dutaud Nagle.
1904-1905 Leaves the Beaux-Arts. Begins work for Rene
Lalique.
1906-1912 In Boston, working for Henry Hudson Kitson.
1912-1913 Leaves Kitson, works independently. Meets Paul
Manship and becomes his assistant.
1917 Marries Isabel Nagle, June 25, New York City.
1918 One-man show at Stephan Bourgeois Galleries. Elevation
shown.
1920 One-man show at Stephan Bourgeois Galleries. e.e.
cummings’ appreciation published in The DiaL
1922 Joins Kraushaar Gallery. Resigns as Director, Society
of Independent Artists.
1924 Alben Gallatin book on Gaston Lacliaise.
1927 One-man show at Alfred Sfieglitz’ The Intimate Gallery.
Floating
Woman shown in plaster
1928 One-man show at the Brummer Gallery. National Coast
Guard Memorial, Washington.
1931 Reliefs executed for R.C.A. Building, Rockefeller
Center.
1932 Large plaster relief for Century of Progress Exposition,
Chicago World’s Falr. One-man show, Philadelphia Art Alliance.
1933 Heroic Woman, 1930-33, cast in bronze.
1934 Reliefs for International Building, Rockefeller Center;
New York. La Montagne executed in cement.
1935 Gaston Lachaise Retrospective Exhibition, Museum
of Modern Art, New York, January-March. Publication of catalog with essay
by Lincoln Kirstein.
1935 Death of Lachaise, New York City, October 17.
1937 One-man show at Whitney Museum.
1938 One-man show at Brooklyn Museum, February-April.
1947 One-man show, M. Knoedler & Company. Catalog.
1955-1956 One-man show, Weyhe Gallery, New York,
December-January.
1957 One-man show, Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, January-February.
Dynamo
Mother first exhibited.
1963-1964 One-man show, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, California, December-January; Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February-April.
1967 Opening of National Touring Exhibition at San Francisco
Museum of Art.
1967 Book, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, edited
by Hilton Kramer
1969 One-man show, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York,
March-April. One-man show, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
July-September.
1974 Book, Gaston Lachasie: The Man & His Work,
by
Gerald Nordland.
1974-1975 Retrospective exhibition: Herbert F Johnson
Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y, November-December; The Frederick
S. Wight Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, California,
January-February; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, March-April;
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June-July.
1980 Special exhibition of works by Lachaise from the
permanent collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, March-April. Exhibition,
Three
American Sculptors and The Female Nude:Lachaise, Nadelman and Airchipenko,
Fogg
Art Museum and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, April-July. Exhibition,
Gaston
Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings organized by California State
College, San Bernardino, October-November
1984 Exhibition, Gaston Lachaise Sculpture and Drawings,
Portland
Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, May-September
1985-1986 Exhibition, Portrait Sculpture by Gaston
Lachaise at National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
D.C., November-February.
1967-2003 National Touring Exhibition continues to travel
throughout the U.S. and Canada to more than 130 museums. |
