Goddess of the Golden Thighs, 1964 - 1966

  • Reuben Nakian, American, 1897 - 1986

Bronze with areas of metallic gilding

  • Overall: 104 1/2 × 145 inches (265.4 cm × 3 m 68.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

68.160

On View

  • College for Creative Studies, Josephine F. Ford Sculpture Garden

Department

Contemporary Art after 1950

Signed on back, middle left and running diagonally from upper left to lower right: NAKIAN

Inscribed, dated to right of above inscription: 1/4 | 1964/65

(Egan Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mendelowitz, D. M. A History of American Art, 2nd ed. New York, 1970, fig. 680, p. 501, (ill.). Ocvirk, O. G. et al. Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice. Dubuque, IA, 1975, fig. 222, (ill.). "Sculpture: Demigods from Stamford." TIME (June 30, 1967): 51 (color ill.).

Reuben Nakian, Goddess of the Golden Thighs, 1964 - 1966, bronze with areas of metallic gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 68.160.