Moonlight (Swimmer)
Date1916
Artist
William Zorach
American sculptor, painter, and lithographer, born in Lithuania, 1889–1966
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions34 × 18 in. (86.4 × 45.7 cm)
frame: 39 1/4 × 23 in. (99.7 × 58.4 cm)
frame: 39 1/4 × 23 in. (99.7 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 2012
Object number2012-12
On View
On viewCollections
- American Art through 1960 on View
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextLike many American painters, William Zorach was influenced by the latest movements in European modern art and by the growing interest in African art. Zorach may have derived his stylized and angular forms from Cubism and his intense color from Fauvism. In the teens, Zorach combined these influences with his own decorative sensibility to create elegant, modern compositions that retained recognizable figures and landscape elements.
William Henry Dethlef Koerner
1915
