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Zorach took art classes at the Educational Alliance as a child and quit school at the end of the seventh grade to become an apprentice at a lithography firm.
Zorach's paintings in the second decade of this century demonstrate his fascination with Fauvism and Cubism, but ten years of avant-garde experimentation exhausted his enthusiasm and in 1922 he gave up painting for sculpture.
Zorach's stone and wood carvings and his work in plaster and terra cotta are stylistically rooted in Egyptian, Greek, and, to some degree, in primitive art.
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The placement of William’s hands is probably meant to suggest him drawing support from her; it’s unlikely she meant to portray him as “keeping her down.” Still, Marguerite’s career was affected when she assumed her motherly duties, and the catalog essays describe how recognition from critics and curators increasingly focused on William.
William came into his own as a sculptor in the 1920s, and as family life drew Marguerite away from her own art, he was freer to describe the new dynamics of their home in his work.
The Zorachs’ two children were raised unconventionally, with maximum creative freedom, and their daughter, Dahlov Ipcar, became an artist.
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Zorach's works can be characterized by their simplified, massive forms and use of traditional subjects including animals, children and the relationships between mother and child, and child and animal.
Zorach was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1953 and awarded their gold medal for sculpture in 1961.
Zorach's works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Massachusetts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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 Antiques and the Arts Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William relied on his wife's mastery of design to produce the preliminary sketch upon which the sculpture was based.
William enjoyed this laborious process, relishing the manner in which the particular qualities of the stone or wood dictated the shapes of finished pieces.
William's "Mother and Child" 91922), a touching mahogany evocation of an embracing mother and infant, and "New Horizon's" (1951), a bronze inspired by spotting his daughter-in-law Peggy Zorach sitting on a Maine beach with one of her young sons lying across her knees, reflect his mastery of subject and medium.
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 Welcome to the Currier Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the summer of 1917 Zorach and his wife, Marguerite (an artist herself), traveled to Plainfield, New Hampshire, where they lived and worked on a friend's farm.
Zorach found the responsibilities of Echo Farm demanding and these experiences inspired his work.
It was during his late twenties that he found expression for his philosophy of man and nature living in harmony and conveying a oneness of spirit.
www.currier.org /browse/index.cfm?gallery=nh&art=Zorach   (167 words)

  
 To Be Modern: The Origins of Marguerite and William Zorach's Creative Partnership, 1911-1922; essay by Jessica Nicoll
Zorach, a mature artist approaching the height of his creative powers, was speaking to art students for whom the revolutionary ideas of modernism were an accepted fact, the starting point for their creative development, now as codified as the academic formulas that modernists had rejected.
William Zorach's fellow traveler and, at times, guide on this odyssey into the uncharted terrain of a new art was Marguerite Thompson, an artist who became his wife and lifelong creative partner.
By their own accounts the Zorachs shared many of the responsibilities of domestic life and were not overly fastidious about housekeeping; however, it was the late 1910s, a time when the care of young children fell largely to women, and Marguerite felt the impact of that reality.
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 York Weekly: The art of nature, the love of family
Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) and William Zorach (1889-1966) lived at a time when modernist art, which was raging in Paris, was introduced to America.
Additionally, the monumentality William transmits in some of his sculptures is also apparent in a work such as Marguerite's "Ella Madison and Dahlov," which depicts an immense fl woman, the "nanny," deliberately out of proportion and holding a fragile diminutive child, her little daughter.
And, with William Zorach, while I lament the lack of inclusion of a larger body of his very fine watercolors, a medium in which he excelled, I was surprised and delighted to experience some of his earlier oil works.
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 Julie Heller Gallery: Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a couple, the Zorachs are unusual in the history of American Art.
Zorach was a painter and creator of tapestry and embroidered objects; Mr.
Zorach was primarily a sculptor, but also a watercolorist and draftsman.
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With the cooperation of the Zorach family, and the Zabriskie Galleries in New York, the Demuth Foundation has mounted its largest show of the year.
Both Zorachs were eventually influenced in their work by the paintings they had seen at 27 rue de Fleurus, in Gertrude and Leo Stein’s impressive collection of Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and Cubist canvases.
William Zorach was among the early painters whom Charles Daniel represented in his New York gallery, along with Charles Demuth.
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 William Zorach Online
William Zorach at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Edna St. Vincent Millay, drawing, ca.1923
William Zorach at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Swope Art Museum, Indiana
All images and text on this William Zorach page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Zorach was born in Lithuania in 1887.
Zorach traveled to Paris to study in 1910 and upon his return to the United States, he settled in New York.
In 1916, in Provincetown, MA Zorach produced a small number of modernist blockprints that were printed in very small editions.
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 Terra Foundation for American Art: Symposia: Robinson Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Zorach’s utopian vision of nudes in a landscape, rhythmical shapes and colors symbolize the integration of figures and nature, while flowering phallic and egg shapes hint at nature’s fecundity, a metaphor for artistic creation.
William Sommer’s modernist paintings, also employing radical distortions of form and color, were inspired by more than aesthetic concerns.
That view is contradicted by the emergence in northeast Ohio of new modernists, such as William Grauer (1896–1985) and Vicktor Schreckengost (b.1906), during the interwar period.
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 Zorach, William on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ZORACH, WILLIAM [Zorach, William], 1887-1966, American sculptor, b.
Bibliography: See his Zorach Explains Sculpture (1960) and Art Is My Life (1967); study by J. Baur (1959).
Bath beauty restored ; A famous sculpture by William Zorach again graces City Park after receiving needed repairs.
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 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY SCULPTURE TOUR, Wichita State University, Kansas, United States
William Zorach and his family immigrated to Port Clinton, Ohio, in 1891.
Zorach dropped out of school in the eighth grade and found work as an apprentice for the Morgan Lithograph Company in Cleveland.
Tessim Zorach, the artist's son, noted that the sculpture was modeled over a span of one to two years.
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 Welcome to the Muhlenberg Masterpieces Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Zorach is categorized among the group of American sculptors known as the direct carvers.
Zorach along with Jo Davidson, John Flannagan, and Chaim Gross, produced many figural pieces in wood and metal.
His sculptures were beautifully handled and in most cases, as with Zorach’s piece at Muhlenberg, the female nude was the considered subject.
www.muhlenberg.edu /cultural/gallery/masterpieces/zorach.html   (159 words)

  
 Sculpture - Indoor
Zorach rarely carved in alabaster, a soft, semitranslucent stone which was commonly used by his fellow sculptor, Robert Laurent.
During the 1920s William Zorach was one of few American sculptors who carved directly in stone by preparing models in clay which were transferred into stone by professional carvers.
(Zorach sometimes placed erroneous dates on his sculpture.) The artist’s son recalls that the stone was purchased in Boston in the summer of 1922.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Zorach William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Zorach William
Zorach, William (1887-1966), American sculptor of Lithuanian birth.
He was born in Jurbarkas and taken to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891.
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 William Zorach Collection
American painter and sculptor William Zorach (1887-1966) was born in Eurburg, Lithuania, and came to the United States in 1891.
Between 1917 and 1922, Zorach turned from painting to sculpture, working in the latter medium for the rest of his life.
Zorach taught at the Art Student's League (1929-1960) and was a founding member of the Sculptor's Guild.
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 William Zorach --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Zorach's mature work is monumental in form and makes skillful use of the...
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 Mark borgh1 Fine Art Inc - American Art - The American Landscape from 1830 -1980   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Of his experiences in Yosemite National Park, Zorach wrote in his autobiography, "Art Is My Life", "I spent five months in the Yosemite Valley sketching, drawing, painting, and doing watercolors.
By the age of twenty, in 1907, he had not only learned his craft but saved enough to study at the National Academy of Design in New York and, later, at Jacques-Emile Blanche's atelier in Paris.
Subsequently, both Zorachs were then represented in the legendary Sixty-Ninth Regimental Armory Show in 1913 that forever changed Americans ideas about art.
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 Zorach Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
The White Mountains, Randolph, N.H. 1915 William Zorach watercolor and pencil on paper sheet: 10
William Zorach Working on a Sculpture, Mother and Child (CA.
William Zorach (1913) Marguerite Zorach watercolor and pencil on paper sheet: 11 x 8 1/2
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 American Fauves
Considered one of the most significant works in the exhibition, it is a watershed painting by one of the first American artists to effect drastic change in his aesthetic as a result of head-on exposure to Matisse's art.
Rice's interest in Fauve painter Andre Derain is exemplified in the work entitled "Ajaccio, Corse." Her passionate reaction to the Corsican countryside is reflected in the rhythmic form and brilliant, jewel-like patterning of color, which garnered her strong, critical acclaim by both the British and French press.
Hollis Taggart Galleries is working on this project with Dr William H. Gerdts, a scholar of American art and professor of the graduate school of the City University of New York.
www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/fauves.htm   (986 words)

  
 Cleveland Art
Although known mostly for the sculptures he produced later in life, William Zorach created remarkable modernist oil paintings during his early years.
This extremely rare double-sided painting by Zorach belongs to a series of allegories created in 1912-14 on the themes of spring and summer.
Zorachís visionary paintings impressed many Cleveland artists, including William Sommer and Charles Burchfield, as seen in this gallery in their paintings, The Three Graces and Faun.
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 Harmonies and Contrasts: The Art of Marguerite and William Zorach
The Zorachs chose to pursue these artistic goals and their life together from a base in New York City, where they were married in 1912.
The Zorachs jointly created embroideries (a medium that would continue to be an area of innovation in Marguerite's art) and each developed works from designs created by the other.
Significantly, when William first began to explore sculpture -- which would become his primary creative medium -- it was with Marguerite at his side as they both experimented with carving wood panels and modeling clay.
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 City of Bath, Maine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There is also a landmark bronze statue and fountain "Spirit of the Sea" created by William Zorach at the corner of the park.
The club chose the region's most celebrated sculptor, William Zorach, for this project.
Zorach told the Garden Club that he would design and create a new fountain as his gift to the City of Bath.
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 William Zorach (1889 - 1966) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
William Faithorne, At the upper end of the plate you have the woman"s arm..., plate 8 opposite page 22 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
William Henry Bartlett, The Danube by William Beattie (London & New York: Virtue & Co., [ca.
William Faithorne, The manner of Casting the Aqua Fortis Upon the Plate, plate 7 opposite page 19 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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 William Zorach's "Victory"
William Zorach conceived a sculpture entitled "Victory" that shows an indebtedness to the works of the late classical fourth century B.C..
It bears some resemblance to the idealized images of Venus, combined with a figural attitude of flight that is perhaps derived from the twisting torso of the conceptions of flight in the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
This is why I prefer strict geometrical shapes and mathematically perfect images to some of the more "free form" representations.
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 William P. Carl - American Fine Prints - Page Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Zorach studied in Paris in 1910-11 and later spent several summers in Provincetown, MA.
There he produced a small number of powerful, modernist blockprints and the editions printed were quite small.
Schofield studied in Provincetown with William Zorach and later studied in Paris with Leger, Lhote and Severini.
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 UPNE | Maine in America
Works by Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Robert Salmon, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and others attest to the depth of the Museum's 19th century collection.
The 20th century is richly represented by Will Barnet, George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, Neil Welliver, Marguerite and William Zorach, and especially the Wyeth family.
WILLIAM H. GERDTS is Professor of Art History at CUNY and author of numerous books, including William Glackens (1996) and Art Across America (1995).
www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-918749-08-5.html   (529 words)

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