The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Caryatid
1913
sculptor
(American, 1876–1942)
Overall: 48.3 x 15.6 x 14.4 cm (19 x 6 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The artist founded the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1930.Description
Traditionally a caryatid sculpture is a draped female figure used as an architectural support. However, in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's example, the sculpture is a nude man. This figure carries a large stone.- 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. #24, p. 29, 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. 73, p. 114."In Memory of Ralph King Gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T., Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 2 (1947): 31-33. p. 33, cat. 70 25141342.Milliken, William. "Sculpture." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 2 (February 1947): 25-26. Mentioned: p. 26 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 Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1988-January 15, 1989).The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12-October 19, 1986).Maurice Prendergast: 1859-1924. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 21-July 30, 1961).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1946.353