Untitled+(Idealized+Head+of+a+Woman)

Date: ca. 1946
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/2001/2001.5_1a.jpg?itok=4o_gqHBi width="220" height="286" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/untitled-idealized-head-of-a-woman-58157"]] || Title: **Untitled (Idealized Head of a Woman)**

Artist: **William E. Artis** Born: Washington, North Carolina 1914 Died: Northport, New York 1977

Medium: marble Dimensions: 18 x 7 1/2 x 11 in. (45.7 x 19.1 x 27.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 2001.5 || Artis usually worked in clay; this marble bust is one of his few ventures into stone carving. His idealized head of a young woman is a lively play of geometric and abstract patterns. At a time when many artists were concerned with social commentary and Africanized subjects, Artis sought to reveal the universal beauty of the human form.
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