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35-1/2 x 20 x 20 in.
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Gift in honor of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Fortune by their children and Gift of the Alliance of the IMA
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American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
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Provenance
Purchased in Italy in the mid-1930s; Collection of Gaetano Lancellotti [1886-1966], Rhode Island until 1987; (Conner-Rosenkranz, New York, New York) in 1988; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1988.
Gallery Labels
The statue's elegant face and poised bearing have the grace and dignity of the neo-classical ideal.
Rogers was a member of the neo-classical movement considered to be America's first native school of sculpture.
Ruth was an Old Testament heroine who left her birthplace and settled in Israel, uttering the words, "Whither thou goest, I will go."
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