William Zorach 1887-1966

The artist
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Gift to the present owners ,1952 (courtesy of the Fletcher Fund)

New York, The Downtown Gallery, William Zorach, January-February 1931, no. 1, illustrated (detail)
Chicago, Ilinois, Art Institute of Chicago, American Paintings and Sculpture, 44th Annual Exhibition, October-December 1931, no. 280, illustrated
Chicago, Ilinois, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June-November 1934, no. 852
Cleveland, Ohio, Museum of Fine Arts, Sculpture of our Time, 1937
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in our Time, 1939, no. 288, illustrated
New York, Art Students League, William Zorach, November 1950, no. 5
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Zorach, October-November 1959, pp. 23, 110, illustrated pl. 46, 47
New York, New York Shakespeare Festival, March 1971-February 1973
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978-79, 1980-85 (on view)

William Zorach, Art is My Life: The Autobiography of William Zorach, New York, 1967, pp. 83-87, illustrated p. 83 and on the cover

William Zorach, in his autobiography Art is My Life, writes of the present work, "I feel Mother and Child is my finest piece of sculpture."