Gaston Lachaise

Dolphin Fountain
1924

A bronze sculpture depicting a dynamic cluster of dolphins, with several figures leaping and intertwining, displayed on a white pedestal against a neutral background.

A bronze sculpture depicting a dynamic cluster of dolphins, with several figures leaping and intertwining, displayed on a white pedestal against a neutral background.

Not on view

Date
1924

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Bronze

Dimensions
Overall: 17 × 39 1/2 × 24 1/4in., 96lb. (43.2 × 100.3 × 61.6 cm)

Accession number
31.41

Publication
Cast by Roman Bronze Works

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Exhibitions

At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism

May 7, 2022–Feb 26, 2023
American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe

Dec 22, 2012–June 29, 2014
Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection

Apr 28–Sept 18, 2011

Gaston Lachaise
25 works in the collection

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