Mother Protecting Her Child

Mother Protecting Her Child
Mother Protecting Her Child, detail
Mother Protecting Her Child, deteail
Mother Protecting Her Child, back
Mother Protecting Her Child, signature
Inventory
Collection Number: 
17696
Building: 
Current Location: 
B2 - Room 318
Floor: 
Lower Level/Vault
Object Description
Artist Dates: 
1918 - 2020
Artist Nationality: 
Hungarian
Accession Date: 
2021
Object Type: 
Details: 
The white marble sculpture "Mother Protecting Her Child" is a figural representation of the mother and child theme.
Framed: 
No
Length: 
10 inches
Width: 
6 inches
Height: 
19 inches
Description: 

Gabriella Polony Mountain's work includes four major themes. The first three themes are clearly recognizable as the Cosmos, Nature, and Figural works with the fourth theme encompassing history, philosophy, and culture. In her life as an artist, Polony Mountain worked with many different medium including mosaics, weavings, sculpture, stained glass, and repousse. Sculpture is a three dimensional branch of the visual arts. In traditional forms of sculpture, the materials used were easily accessible and consisted of stone, metal, wood, ceramics. The process for creating sculpture is as varied as the materials used and include carving, modelling, molded, cast, welded. These days the sculptural form is one with fewer boundaries in terms of material and process.

The white marble sculpture "Mother Protecting Her Child" is a figural representation of the mother and child theme. Polony Mountain uses familiar bold shapes and curvlinear lines to depict a mother embracing and protecting her child.

Reproduce the Work in Library publications/publicity, including film or videotape: 
Yes
Make slides or videotapes for educational use: 
Yes
Permit the general public to photograph the work : 
Yes