Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling

United States, 1930
Sculpture
Bronze
15 1/8 x 7 1/2 x 10 in. (38.42 x 19.05 x 25.4 cm)
Gift of Maury P. Leibovitz (M.83.206.7)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

The career of Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) as a short-story writer and journalist is associated with late nineteenth-century British India. ...
The career of Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) as a short-story writer and journalist is associated with late nineteenth-century British India. Kipling’s inclusion in Davidson’s series of notable writers was deemed essential by George Doran of Doubleday, Doran & Co., but the author refused to sit for the portrait. Eventually Davidson resorted to sketching Kipling surreptitiously during a formal dinner. The head was shown as a sketch from memory at Davidson’s Knoedler exhibition in London.
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Bibliography

  • Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick.  American Art:  a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.