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Ten Breaths: Tumbling Woman II

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Copied Eric Fischl, Ten Breaths: Tumbling Woman II, 2007-2008, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James F. Dicke Family, 2013.86, © 2008, Eric Fischl

Artwork Details

Title: Ten Breaths: Tumbling Woman II
Artist: Eric Fischl
Date: 2007-2008
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 23 x 26 x 49 in. (58.4 x 66.0 x 124.5 cm)
Copyright: © 2008, Eric Fischl
Credit Line: Gift of the James F. Dicke Family
Mediums: bronze
Mediums Description: bronze
Classifications: Sculpture
Keywords: Figure female — full length
Disaster
History — United States — September 11
Object Number: 2013.86
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2013.86

Artwork Description

In Ten Breaths: Tumbling Woman II, Eric Fischl used a single figure to call attention to the human dimension of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. Fischl intended Tumbling Woman to be "a healing object" for mourners of this unprecedented loss. The vulnerability of the human body, a motif Fischl used in sculptures before 2001, takes on special significance in this tragic context.

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