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NAT CHOATE (1899 - 1965) Untitled (Mother and Child with Dove).
Painted plaster, circa 1940-50. Approximately 514 mm; 20 1/4 inches high. Inscribed signature, lower right.
Provenance: D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York; private collection, New Hampshire; private collection, Pennyslvania.
Nathaniel Choate was a distinguished and successful sculptor. He received popular and critical acclaim for exhibitions at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York in 1934, and the Arden Gallery in New York in 1938. Born in Southboro, MA, Choate received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1922. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, the Académie Delécluse and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and visited and lived throughout Europe in the early 1930s. He had public commissions during the WPA era, and was later elected to the National Academy of Design. His work is in the collections of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, the National Academy of Design, New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
