Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Mother and Child |
Object Name |
Sculpture |
Other Name |
Art |
Accession Number |
1988.192 |
Date |
1941 |
Artist |
Lipchitz, Jacques |
Material |
Bronze |
Dimensions |
H-50 W-47 inches |
Credit line |
Fallingwater, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy |
Notes |
One of the foremost sculptors of the twentieth century, Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) began making sketches of Mother and Child (1941) two years before executing it upon arriving in New York City. The organic forms and lines of the piece lent an expressiveness that differed from his earlier Cubist works. At Fallingwater, Mother and Child faced the house at Frank Lloyd Wright's suggestion, set upon the masonry wall that formed the plunge pool in Bear Run. Rushing floodwaters tipped the piece into the water in 1956, where it was later recovered, repaired by Lipchitz, and repositioned by the Kaufmanns to face toward nature. Located in the plunge pool at Fallingwater. |