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Mrs John Cowles

Jacques Lipchitz 1956

The plaster sculpture depicts the French dancer, artist and choreographer Sage Fuller Cowles, wife of American magazine publisher John Cowles.
Lipchitz chose to portray her because he was greatly impressed by her vitality.

Technical information

Author: Jacques Lipchitz
Title: Mrs John Cowles
Date: 1956
Material and technique: Plaster coated with shellac
Size: 33x17,8x24,1 cm
Location: Palazzo Pretorio Museum
Third Floor

Sage Fuller Cowles was born in Paris and moved to Minnesota in 1953, after studying at the School of American Ballet in New York and earning a degree in Art History from the University of Wisconsin. She married her husband in 1952. John Cowles was the owner of the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1935; he also served on the board of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which organised a retrospective of Lipchitz's work in 1954.
A bronze version of this portrait is included in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.