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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Kaufman, Mico,     Portrait male -- Debussy, Claude     Performing Arts -- Music     Ethnic -- French     Recreation -- Dancing     Figure group     Figure male -- Elderly     Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Lowell     Sculpture

Claude Debussy, Musicien Francais, (sculpture). Artist:  Kaufman, Mico, 1924-2016, sculptor. Title:  Claude Debussy, Musicien Francais, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Claude Debussy, French Musician, (sculpture). Dates:  1987. Dedicated 1989. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite and concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 44 in. x 16 in.; Base: approx. 12 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 3 in. Inscription:  (Sculpture, back lower right:) Mico K. (Base, back center:) MICO K. sc 1987 (Base, front:) CLAUDE DEBUSSSY/1862 - 1918 signed Description:  A portrait of Claude Debussy with bearded face, head leaning on his proper left hand, and cane held in his extended proper right hand. This waist-length portrait emerges from the top of a contemporary, open-work design. The front of the open-work is adorned with small figures of a man and a woman dancing and the back is adorned with another male-female couple accompanied by a bearded old man. The entire sculpture is slightly curved and rests on a curved granite base. Below the base is a rectangular concrete pad. Subject:  Portrait male -- Debussy, Claude -- Waist length Performing Arts -- Music -- Composer Ethnic -- French Recreation -- Dancing Figure group Figure male -- Elderly Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Lowell Sculpture Owner:  University of Massachusetts, Off Wilder Street near Durgin Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts Remarks:  The Debussy sculpture was funded by the Claude Debussy Trust Fund, Inc. The idea for the Debussy sculpture was conceived in 1985 by Prof. Jacqueline Charette of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts. She was inspired after seeing a sculpture of Chopin in London. She contacted Mico Kaufman and assembled a committee of supporters. In 1989, Ms. Charette and a Lowell based group, the Friends of Debussy's Music, contacted French officials to discuss casting a second sculpture for Debussy's home town of St. Germain en Laye, a suburb of Paris.IAS files contain an article from the University of Massachusetts newsletter and an article from The Sun (Lowell, MA), March 2, 1997. References:  Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997. Illustration:  Image on file. The Sun (Lowell, MA), March 2, 1997. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 87740225   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87740225 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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