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Artist: Robert Cronbach (American, 1908 - 2001)

Date: c. 1960
Medium: bronze, stainless steel, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 46 3/4 x 33 in. (118.7 x 83.8 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Douglas Berman and Bernd Peter Daferner
Object number: 2018.239.1

Modernist sculptor Robert Cronbach studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he was awarded two Cresson Scholarships to travel to Europe in 1929 and 1930. He spent time working with American sculptor Paul Manship as an assistant in Paris and New York. Cronbach exhibited regularly in New York City and carried out public commissions for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

This work is a study for a larger sculpture that was presented to the United Nations General Assembly Building in 1960. The current work represents the lower left portion of the finished, larger sculpture. It was the first time Cronbach had used three different metals in one of his hammered and welded compositions.

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