A bust by Ottilie Maclaren Wallace acquired by Denver

14/3/24 - Acquisition - Denver, Denver Art Museum - A bust of the Scottish sculptor Ottilie Maclaren Wallace (ill. 1 to 3) is about to join the European collections of the Denver Art Museum. Acquired from the Drylewicz Gallery in Paris, it adds to the collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century sculptures a work by a pupil and disciple of Auguste Rodin, whose highly comparable plaster bust, The Weeping Woman, has been preserved (ill. 4). It is also a new addition to the range of works by women artists regularly added to the museum’s collection, and for the same period joins paintings and sheets by Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalez and Mary Cassatt, a second pastel of which was recently donated (ill. 5).