Lachaise, Gaston (gästôN` läshĕz`), 1882–1935, American sculptor, b. Paris. After studying in Paris, he emigrated to the United States in 1906. For 12 years he worked in Boston and New York City, chiefly for the sculptors H. H. Kitson and Paul Manship Manship, Paul Howard, 1885–1966, American sculptor, b. St. Paul, Minn., studied at St. Paul Institute of Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the American Academy at Rome. He often went to classical mythology for his subjects.
..... Click the link for more information. , who employed him to execute details on some of their commissions. Lachaise made decorations for the RCA (now GE) Building, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, and other New York City structures. Perhaps his most famous works, however, are single figures, such as his Standing Woman (Mus. of Modern Art, New York City), which has monumental charm and extraordinary vitality.

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See studies by H. Kramer et al. (1967) and G. Nortland (1974).

Lachaise, Gaston

(born March 19, 1882, Paris, Fr.—died Oct. 18, 1935, New York, N.Y., U.S.) French-born U.S. sculptor. Son of a cabinetmaker, he was trained in the decorative arts and studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts (1898–1904). He was a designer of Art Nouveau decorative objects for René Lalique before immigrating to the U.S. in 1906. His most famous work, Standing Woman (1912–27), a female nude with ample breasts and thighs and sinuous, tapered limbs, typifies the image he worked and reworked throughout his career. He is also known for his portrait busts of John Marin, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, and others.

Lachaise, Gaston (1882–1935) sculptor; born in Paris, France. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts beginning in 1898, worked for René Lalique, then emigrated to Boston (1906), and settled in New York City (1912) to work with Paul Manship and set up his studio. In 1918 he married Isabel Dutard Nagle, the inspiration for much of his work, and created many monumental female nudes, as in Standing Woman (1912–27). He died of leukemia at the height of his career.