America, Ohio, Cleveland / 1925
Russian Dancer
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Russian Dancer as sculpture (America, Ohio, Cleveland · 1925).
Alexander Blazys trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The museum identifies this sculpture as bronze and credits Alexander Blazys (American, born Russian Empire [now Lithuania], 1894–1963).
The museum's collection notes: A Lithuanian immigrant, Alexander Blazys introduced modernist sculpture to Cleveland upon his arrival in 1925. Russian Dancer was one of the works that established his reputation as "the sculptor of rhythms."
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