Jo Davidson
Charles Lindbergh1939

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Artist or Maker: Jo Davidson
Title: Charles Lindbergh
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1939
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Height: 20 5/8 in. (52.4 cm) with base
Credit Line: Gift of Maury P. Leibovitz
Accession Number: M.83.206.5
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Although this deed established his reputation, the aviator became equally famous as a result of the publicity related to the kidnapping of his son in 1932.
Davidson modeled the bust in Paris shortly before World War II began. The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., owns a cast from an earlier edition and dates it 1937.
Selected 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.
Copyright: © Jo Davidson Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Artist or Maker: Jo Davidson
Title: Charles Lindbergh
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1939
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Height: 20 5/8 in. (52.4 cm) with base
Credit Line: Gift of Maury P. Leibovitz
Accession Number: M.83.206.5
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Although this deed established his reputation, the aviator became equally famous as a result of the publicity related to the kidnapping of his son in 1932.
Davidson modeled the bust in Paris shortly before World War II began. The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., owns a cast from an earlier edition and dates it 1937.
Selected 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.