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Anna Glenny Dunbar

American, 1888-1980

The Jewess

The Jewess

The Jewess, 1934-1935

Currently on View

red concrete

overall: 24 x 16 1/4 x 9 inches (60.96 x 41.27 x 22.86 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Sherman S. Jewett Fund, 1942

1942:6

Inscriptions:

signature / back, lower left / AG

Provenance:

purchased from the artist by Albright Art Gallery, 1942

Object Classifications:

Sculpture

Sculpture (visual work)

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Buffalo-born Anna Glenny Dunbar helped significantly to advance the careers of several early twentieth–century sculptors. During the mid-1920s, she facilitated the organization of monographic exhibitions of the work of Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Ivan Meštrović, and Aristide Maillol as the Albright Art Gallery’s “honorary curator of sculpture.” She was also a prolific artist in her own right and was described as having “a fertile fancy and a creative instinct which shapes everything she attempts into a new and vital form of art.” The Jewess is perhaps the best known of Dunbar’s works.

Label from Picasso: The Artist and His Models, November 5, 2016–February 19, 2017