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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Italian Peasant Head, 1913
bronze
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Artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American, 1877-1942
Foundry C. Valsuani, Paris
Title
  • Italian Peasant Head
Date 1913
Medium bronze
Dimensions Overall: 14 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (35.9 × 19.1 × 18.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of George G. Booth
Accession Number 19.60
Department American Art before 1950
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed Signed and dated, on back upper right: Gertrude V. Whitney, 1913
Provenance
George G. Booth;
1919-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Bulletin of the DIA (1919): p. 40.

DIA Catalogue 1920. Detroit, no. 315.

Gardner, A. T. American Sculpture: A Catalogue. New York, 1965, p. 130.

Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, p. 105, no. 97 (ill.).

Tolles, Thayer. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York, 1999, pp. 593-594, no. 271 (ill. of example at MMA titled, Head of a Spanish Peasant).