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Themes: MLC Portfolio: Race and Otherness

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Artist(s): Benjamin Thorne Gilbert (Utica, NY, Sep 21, 1872 - 1961)
Title: Race Sorrow
Date: c. 1940's
Medium: bronze
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of anonymous donor, 1944.74

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Periods and Styles: Civil Rights Movement
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Race and Otherness
Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity

Object Information

This work by Gilbert was awarded first prize in sculpture in 1940 at an exhibit at the New York University Club. Born in Utica, he was the only son of Benjamin Davis and Adelaide Thorne Gilbert, and was educated in local schools, Lawrenceville, N. J., Preparatory School, and Phillips Academy, Andover.

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Heads: an exhibit which explores some of the many ways the human head has been u, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1980 - 12/7/1980

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