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Boy and Eel [Photograph]Description
Boy and Eel sculptor by Waldine Tauch, being sold by Gorham Company, 5th Avenue, New York City.Context
During the following twelve years in New York City she completed a number of major sculptures, including her first commission for a large work, the Indiana War Memorial (1926) in Bedford, Indiana. While in New York she began producing small genre figures that were reproduced for the mass market by the Gorham Company. Small statuettes such as Surfboard (ca. 1924), Gulf Breeze (1929), and Boy and Eel (1924), all of which celebrated the nude figure, revealed a more romantic, personal vision than the sober commemorative works that occupied most of her time.