ART TRACKERSConnecting fine art to people
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServices
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServices
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Art Trackers logo
ART TRACKERS
Connecting fine art to people

Connecting fine art to people. Preserving cultural legacy through technology.

Platform

FeaturesHow It WorksSecurityIntegrations

Government

For Cities & CountiesComplianceResourcesCase Studies

Resources

DocumentationHelp CenterBlog

Company

About UsCareersNewsContact Us

© 2026 Art Trackers LLC. All rights reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceAccessibility
    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Woman (Elevation)
    Gaston Lachaise. Woman (Elevation), Modeled 1912–15, cast 1927. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001862

    Public data from the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn more

    Woman (Elevation)

    by Gaston Lachaise

    Inscriptions

    Cast on base: G. Lachaise © 1927

    Provenance

    The artist, New York; by descent to his widow, Isabel Dutaud Nagle Lachaise (1872–1957), New York, 1935; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

    Exhibition history

    New York, The Brummer Gallery, Lachaise, Feb. 27–Mar. 24, 1928, cat. 5. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

    Publications

    Katharine Kuh, “Lachaise: Sculptor of Maturity,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 40, 3 (Mar. 1946), 31, ill. Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise (Eakins Press, 1967), 11. Gerald Norland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work (George Braziller, 1974), 74. Sam Hunter, Lachaise (Cross River Press, 1993), 23–25. Otto G. Ocvirk and Robert E. Stinson, et al., Art Fundamentals, 7th edition (William C. Brown, 1994), 260, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Eldelstein (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 32. Virginia Budny, “Gaston Lachaise’s American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation,” American Art Journal 34 & 35 (2003–2004), 64, fig. 1. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 49–52, cat. 5 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gaston Lachaise (American, born France, 1882–1935)
    Date
    Modeled 1912–15, cast 1927
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    With base: 182.9 × 71.1 × 43.2 cm (72 1/16 × 28 × 17 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    bronze
    Style
    Modernism
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection
    Accession no.
    1943.580

    More by Gaston Lachaise in museum collections

    • Acrobat

      Gaston Lachaise

      1926 · Sculpture

      Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001967
    • Head of Woman

      Gaston Lachaise

      1920 · Sculpture

      Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010667
    • Dancing Children

      Gaston Lachaise

      1923 · Sculpture

      Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010723

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

    • View this work at the Art Institute of Chicago
    • The Art Institute of Chicago: open-access terms

    Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

    Open-access museum record · AT-00001862

    Powered by Art Trackers