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Zorach
[ zawr-ahk, -ahkh, -ak, zohr- ]
noun
- William, 1887–1966, U.S. sculptor and painter, born in Lithuania.
Example Sentences
Ms. Bontecou attended first Bradford Junior College in Massachusetts and then the Art Students League in New York, where she studied painting with Robert Brackman and sculpture with William Zorach.
A generation earlier, painter Marguerite Zorach had briefly concentrated her energies on embroidered works, where the design could be quickly sketched and the picture completed, stitch by stitch, whenever there were a few quiet minutes to spare from children and household duties.
Zorach’s sensitively rendered mother gazes toward her counterpart with an expression of concern, while the goddess, regally flicking a cape behind her nude body, deigns to look at no one.
Eleven more framed drawings and paintings cluster around the Sprinchorn: a mix of voluptuous graphite nudes by Lachaise; sinuous female bathers, posed against blood-red skies, by Marguerite Zorach; a sailboat confronting a great wave; a Cubist pastoral scene; Duchamp’s “Nude”; and, in Louis Bouché’s “Mama’s Boy,” a child peering between heavy green curtains.
The art exhibition begins on the house’s patio, where Ettie installed Gaston Lachaise’s stately alabaster “Venus” and a bronze “Mother and Child” by William Zorach.
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