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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland
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Artist
Rhoda Sherbell, born 1938
Sitter
Aaron Copland, 14 Nov 1900 - 2 Dec 1990
Date
1977
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
With Base: 52.7 x 25.4 x 28.9cm (20 3/4 x 10 x 11 3/8")
Without Base: 37.5 x 25.4 x 28.9cm (14 3/4 x 10 x 11 3/8")
Base: 15.2 x 15.2cm (6 x 6")
Topic
Aaron Copland: Male
Aaron Copland: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Composer
Aaron Copland: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Conductor
Aaron Copland: Pulitzer Prize
Aaron Copland: Oscar
Aaron Copland: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Aaron Copland: Congressional Gold Medal
Portrait
Place
United States\New York\Kings\New York
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Rhoda Sherbell
Object number
NPG.94.30
Exhibition Label
Born Brooklyn, New York
A pioneering figure in twentieth-century American music, Aaron Copland first rooted his work in jazz during the 1920s to showcase its divergence from European traditions. By the thirties, he used the flourishing mass media of radio and movies to create a large music-loving audience with film scores for Of Mice and Men and The Heiress, for which he won an Academy Award in 1949. Copland also composed scores for such ballets as Agnes de Mille’s Billy the Kid and Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for the latter. His symphonic compositions include A Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man.
Provenance
Rhoda Sherbell [b. 1938]; purchased NPG 1994
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view