William Zorach, Floating Figure, 1922, cast plaster, 8 1⁄2 x 32 x 6 in. (21.6 x 81.4 x 15.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.3
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Floating Figure
- Artist
- Date
- 1922
- Location
- Dimensions
- 8 1⁄2 x 32 x 6 in. (21.6 x 81.4 x 15.3 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- cast plaster
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Figure female — nude
- Object Number
- 1968.154.3
Artwork Description
William Zorach was inspired to make Floating Figure by the woman who taught his family to swim and by what he called a “deep feeling of pleasure from the sea.” Zorach simplified his female figures because he believed that the human body, when reduced to its basic forms, was “a thing of sheer beauty.”