Donald De Lue (1897-1988) | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Born in Boston in 1897, Donald De Lue came of age as a sculptor under the tutelage of Paul Manship, with whom he studied in Paris between 1918 and 1922. In 1915 De Lue won the prestigious Kimball Prize, awarded by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. During the 1920s and 30s, De Lue achieved prominence as a sculptor. His style, reminiscent of Manship's and influenced by Art Deco precepts, was immensely popular both in France and the United States. De Lue's popularity peaked during the New Deal (1933-1938) when he was a frequent contributor to Federal sculpture competitions. He received Honorable Mention for his maquette for the monumental sculptures to adorn the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, DC, and achieved widespread praise for his figure of the Rocket Thrower, one of the sculptures cast for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, which is still installed on site at the Unisphere, in Flushing Meadows, NY.

From his childhood, De Lue had been interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and studied the sculpture of that era. Throughout his career, he focused on creating works exploring "cosmic beings and their effect on the human spirit." As much as De Lue absorbed from his study of antiquities, his subjects also bore the hallmark of his years with Manship, who shared De Lue's interest in a modern, universal style.

Adapted from

Eleanor Jones Harvey, DMA Acquisition proposal (1997.20), May 1997.

NOTES

Artist geographies:

born- Boston, MA

worked- NYC

died- Leonardo, NJ

trained- Paris

Added specific artist life dates.

This note was tagged #routed in June 2015 and Sue's revisions (in a Word doc created by ASG) have been applied to the note as of October 2015. As of January 2017 I am adding the #draft tag to this note so that it is harvested to Google Drive. Once I am sure that all pending TMS or Piction data entry is complete, I will remove the #routed tag, add the #complete tag, and move the Google Doc to Queta's folder so that it is not re-routed to Sue.

Removed the following video asset:

Chrono Leap, "Rocket Thrower at Flushing Meadows Corona Park," Youtube video, Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida, published on December 24, 2014, https://youtu.be/85PkAVL986s, accessed March 12, 2015.

Removed the fololwing image asset (in lieu of adding it to Piction)

Donald De Lue, Rocket Thrower (southwestern side), 1963, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY. Photograph by Jim Henderson. Full size image available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Thrower.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS

1930s America

New Deal art projects (United States, 1933-1945)

World's Fair

AUDIO ASSETS

VIDEO ASSETS

IMAGE ASSETS

WEB RESOURCES

Biography and portrait~Find out more about Donald De Lue through the Smithsonian American Art Museum

ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

FUN FACTS

TEACHING IDEAS

RULES

apply to constituents where id equals 97854

Apply to objects where constituent_id equals 97854

General Description

Born in Boston in 1897, Donald De Lue came of age as a sculptor under the tutelage of Paul Manship, with whom he studied in Paris between 1918 and 1922. In 1915 De Lue won the prestigious Kimball Prize, awarded by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. During the 1920s and 30s, De Lue achieved prominence as a sculptor. His style, reminiscent of Manship's and influenced by Art Deco precepts, was immensely popular both in France and the United States. De Lue's popularity peaked during the New Deal (1933-1938) when he was a frequent contributor to Federal sculpture competitions. He received Honorable Mention for his maquette for the monumental sculptures to adorn the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, DC, and achieved widespread praise for his figure of the Rocket Thrower, one of the sculptures cast for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, which is still installed on site at the Unisphere, in Flushing Meadows, NY.