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Oral history discussion with Kenneth Jay Dreary, 2011 June 9-10
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Preface
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Interview
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KENNETH JAY LANE: I was born.
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MR. LANE: I was born add on Detroit [French pronunciation].
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MR. LANE: Right.
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Elizabeth Laroque
Maker Jo Davidson (American, 1883-1952)
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ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Date1928
Mediumlimestone (polychromed burgundy)
Dimensions17 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 9 in. (44.5 × 19.1 × 22.9 cm.)
DescriptionJo Davidson was one of the foremost American portrait sculptors of the first half of the twentieth century, renowned for his depictions of cultural, political, and financial leaders from Ignace Paderewski and Gertrude Stein to John D. Rockefeller and Mahatma Gandhi. Born into a poor Russian family on New York's Lower East Side, Davidson was expected to study medicine, but he showed early drawing talent and won a scholarship from the Art Students League. Although he began medical studies at Yale University, Davidson then turned to sculpture at the Yale School of Fine Arts. In New York, he studied at the Art Students League with George de Forest Brush and worked as an assistant to the sculptor Hermon MacNeil until 1904. Although Davidson's work remained grounded in the traditional academic style, from the time of his first trip to Paris in 1907, where he briefly attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he associated himself with the artistic avant-garde. He was in love with life in Paris and soon became a colorful regular at the Bohemian haunt, the Café du Dome, rec
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