Description:
Figure of a girl seated in a chair holding flowers
Label Text:
This work by Henry Rox, a longtime member of the Art Department at Mount Holyoke College from 1939 until his retirement in 1964, is a playful interpretation of the statuette format: a stool acts as the pedestal of the piece, which features a young girl holding a bouquet of flowers ingeniously made of metal wire springs. The figure’s slender body, awkward posture, and oversized feet show her to be on the brink of adolescence, echoing a theme explored by Alfred Gilbert in An Offering to Hymen, also exhibited in this gallery. The surface of the sculpture is deliberately left rough to show the touch of the artist, inserting this piece in the same lineage as works by Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein.
-Gülru Çakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Massachussetts Amherst
A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives (July 29, 2017 - May 27, 2018)
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