Overview
An important sculptor and a key member of the New York art scene in the first half of the 20th century, Nadelman fused the classical influences of his Beaux-Arts style training in Europe with the subject matter and imagery of popular culture in America to create his uniquely abstracted works. At times his works seemed to combine the traditional with what was modern at the time. His "radically simplified drawings" were deceptively simple in their economy of line and form.
Exhibitions
Gallery 291, New York, 1910, 1915 (solo)
William B. Paterson Gallery, London, 1911 (solo)
Armory Show, New York, 1913
Salon des Independents, Paris, 1914
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1938
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 1975
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1975; retrospective, 2003
Museums and Public Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jewish Museum, New York
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Elie Nadelman at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Huntington Library, California
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City