Mother Playing

Artist: Gross, Chaim

Status: In Situ

Title: Mother Playing (sculpture)

Dates: 1961

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: H. 48 in. L. 80 in. 

Description: A female figure, lying on her back with a small child balanced on her leg.  The mother and child hold hands and face each other. 

Owner: Fordham University

Located at Fordham University, On Columbus Avenue near 60th Street, New York, New York

Remarks: The model for this sculpture was originally cast in plaster, and depicts one of sculptor’s Chaim Gross’s favorite subjects. Another cast is installed at the entrance to the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, and a smaller earlier version is in the permanent collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

References: Gayle, Margot & Michele Cohen, Guide to Manhattan’s Outdoor Sculpture, New York: Prentice Hall, 1988, pg. 266.