Floating Figure

Copied 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

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
Keywords
  • Figure female — nude
Object Number
1968.154.3
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/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.”