Ginger Rogers
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Object Details
- Artist
- Isamu Noguchi, 17 Nov 1904 - 30 Dec 1988
- Sitter
- Ginger Rogers, 16 Jul 1911 - 25 Apr 1995
- Exhibition Label
- Born Independence, Missouri
- Ginger Rogers won the Texas State Charleston Championship at age fourteen and then embarked on the vaudeville circuit, chaperoned by her mother. By 1930 she had become a Broadway star in the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy. Hollywood then beckoned, and Rogers partnered in ten films with Fred Astaire, bringing a silvery glamour to Depression-era America in such movies as Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, and Shall We Dance. Other films included Stage Door, with Katharine Hepburn, and Kitty Foyle, for which she received a Best Actress Oscar in 1940. Her friend Isamu Noguchi worked on this sculpture while interned at a wartime camp for Japanese Americans.
- Provenance
- The Ginger Rogers Trust; purchased NPG 1996
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee
- 1942
- Object number
- NPG.96.103
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Estate of Isamu Noguchi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Pink Georgia marble
- Dimensions
- With Base: 50.8 x 18.7 x 26.7cm (20 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/2")
- Without Base: 37.5 x 18.7 x 26.7cm (14 3/4 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/2")
- Base: 13.3 x 18.7 x 20.3cm (5 1/4 x 7 3/8 x 8")
- Place
- United States\Arizona
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- Bravo!
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 321 Mezzanine
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Ginger Rogers: Female
- Ginger Rogers: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Stage actor
- Ginger Rogers: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie actor
- Ginger Rogers: Performing Arts\Performer\Vaudeville performer
- Ginger Rogers: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer\Tap
- Ginger Rogers: Oscar
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.96.103
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm48dc8fd80-0969-4905-bc0d-4f896aebc46c
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