Cleveland Museum of Art

Russian Dancer

Alexander Blazys

Date

1925

Medium

bronze

Culture

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Department

American Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Lithuanian immigrant, Blazys introduced modernist sculpture to Cleveland upon his arrival in 1925. These figures merge rhythmic movement inspired by music with faceted, geometric planes derived from Cubism.

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