Collection Highlights
Euphemia Toussaint (1815-1829)
ca. 1825
1920.6
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
William Adams Delano (1874-1960)
Title
William Adams Delano (1874-1960)
Date
1944
Medium
Light bronze painted plaster
Dimensions
Overall: 23 x 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. ( 58.4 x 36.8 x 24.1 cm )
Description
Portrait bust
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Object Number
1951.452
Marks
signed: on proper left shoulder: "MALVINA HOFFMAN/1944"
Gallery Label
Delano was awarded a diploma in architecture in 1903 from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and upon his return to the United States formed a partnership with Chester Holmes Aldrich. The firm designed, among other buildings, the Rockefeller mansion at Pocantico Hills, New York, the American embassy in Paris, and the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C. The bronze is at the Lawrenceville School, N.J.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
