The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Dawn
1912
sculptor
(American, 1881–1956)
Overall: 55.3 cm (21 3/4 in.); without base: 35.6 cm (14 in.)
Anonymous Gift 1917.630
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Chester Beach traded two of his sculptures to a farmer in Brewster, NY, obtaining land where he built his studio and a summer home.Description
Created while Chester Beach was living in Rome, Dawn features a nude man on horseback against a background of human forms emerging from a cloud of rolling mist. Although carved in the round from a block of marble, the sculpture has one primary view.- Solender, Katherine. The American Way in Sculpture, 1890-1930. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. cat. #30, p. 34, repr.Barryte, Bernard, and Roberta K. Tarbell. Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936. Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2011. cat. no. 89, p. 128-129."Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67. Mentioned: p. 64 www.jstor.org
- Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876-1936. Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (organizer) (October 5, 2011-January 1, 2012).The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12-October 19, 1986).Sculpture of Our Time. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 5, 1937).
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