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Douglas Tilden, The Young Acrobat, modeled ca. 1891, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Wayne H. Decker, 1991.62
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Douglas Tilden exhibited The Young Acrobat at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The work shows a chubby, nude baby poised unsteadily in the palm of a man's outstretched arm. The rolled-up sleeve may symbolize the working man who holds up to the world the hope and promise of the future. The work reveals Tilden's characteristic choice of subject matter that shows a measured balance between delicacy and force. Tilden believed that sculpture should be beautiful from all sides; the attention to musculature and fleshy detail on all surfaces of this work suggests that he intended it to be seen in the round.
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The Young Acrobat
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- modeled ca. 1891
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33 5/8 x 12 x 12 in. (85.4 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Dr. Wayne H. Decker
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- bronze
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- Figure – fragment – arm
- Figure male – child – nude
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1991.62
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