Artist

William Zorach

born Eurburg, Lithuania 1889-died Bath, ME 1966
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William Zorach, 1950,© Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0002313
Also known as
  • Zorach Samovich
  • William Finkelstein
Born
Eurburg, Lithuania
Died
Bath, Maine, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Biography

Born in Lithuania, brought to Ohio in 1891, moved to New York City in 1912. Artist who ceased oil painting in 1922, having discovered that sculpture suited him better; he tried to let the stone or wood take its own shape, whether in large public monuments or in smaller works.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)

Works by this artist (744 items)

William Zorach, Innocence (Figure of Girl - Dahlov), 1928, cast and patinated plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.143
Innocence (Figure of Girl — Dahlov)
Date1928
cast and patinated plaster
On view
William Zorach, Head of Abraham Walkowitz, 1943, plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.130
Head of Abraham Walkowitz
Date1943
plaster
On view
William Zorach, Two Marys (Empyrean Children), 1960, cast and patinated plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.133
Two Marys (Empyrean Children)
Date1960
cast and patinated plaster
On view