Trained in both folk and academic traditions, Constantin Brancusi sought his own path for sculpture around 1907. Breaking with the currents of the time, he adopted direct carving, combined different materials for single works, and simplified form in his search for his subjects\u2019 essential characters. His works have profoundly influenced the development of twentieth-century abstraction.<\/p>\n
More than any other theme, Brancusi\u2019s series Bird<\/em> summarizes his quest for a self-sufficient form. \u201cAll my life, I have sought to render the essence of flight,\u201d the artist once said. He began the first of twenty-seven Bird<\/em> sculptures around 1910 and completed the last in the 1940s. He called the earliest variations Maiastra<\/em>, referring to a bird in Romanian folklore that leads a prince to his princess. In the Art Institute\u2019s Golden Bird<\/em>, details such as feet, a tail, and an upturned crowing beak are only suggested in an elegant, streamlined silhouette. Br\u00e2ncusi perched this refined shape on a rough-hewn, geometric base, contrasting the disembodied, light-reflective surface with an earthbound mass. The central polyhedron was cut from the middle of a tree trunk, and its circles (indicating the tree\u2019s age) rotate like a sun, as if radiating light over the bird.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Trained in both folk and academic traditions, Constantin Brancusi broke with the currents of his time by combining different materials for single works and simplifying form in his search for his subjects\u2019 essence. Works like his iconic Golden Bird<\/em>\u2014one of more than two dozen bird sculptures the artist created in his efforts to \"render the essence of flight\u201d\u2014greatly influenced 20th-century abstraction.","dimensions":"217.8 \u00d7 29.9 \u00d7 29.9 cm (86 \u00d7 11 3\/4 \u00d7 11 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":29,"width":29,"height":217,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Bronze, stone, and wood","inscriptions":"Signed underneath: \"C. Brancusi\"","credit_line":"Partial gift of The Arts Club of Chicago; purchased with funds provided by various donors; through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; through prior purchase with funds provided by William E. Hartmann; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Maremont through the Kate Maremont Foundation, Woodruff J. Parker, Mrs. Clive Runnells, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, and various donors","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Ezra Pound, The Little Review 8 (Autumn 1921), n.p. (ills., pls. 17, 24). \n\nSculptor\u2019s Gallery, Exhibition of Contemporary French Art exh. cat. (New York: Sculptor\u2019s Gallery, 1922), n.p. (cat. 14), as Bird, 1921.\n\nMina Loy, \u201cBrancusi\u2019s Golden Bird,\u201d The Dial v. LXXIII (July\u2013December, 1922), pp. 507-508 (ill.), as The Golden Bird.\n\nPaul Westheim, \u201cBildhauer in Frankreich,\u201d Das Kunstblatt 6, no. 2 (Potsdam, 1922), pp. 54\u201355, 57 (ill.), as Der Goldene Vogel.\n\nCarl Einstein and Paul Westheim, Europa Almanach: Malerei, Literatur, Musik, Architektur, Plastik, B\u00fchne, Film, Mode (Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Publishers, 1925), p. 56 (ill.), as Der heilige Vogel.\n\nEzra Pound, \u201cArt Supplement,\u201d This Quarter 1, no. 1 (1925), p. 289 (ill.), as L\u2019oiseau d\u2019or, 1920.\n\nCarl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Im Propyl\u00e4en-Verlag, 1926), pp. 168, 526 (ill.), 569, as Der goldene Vogel.\n\nRoger Fry, Catalogue of the Exhibition of Tri-National Art: French, British, American exh. cat. (New York: Wildenstein Galleries, 1926), n.p. (cat. 146), as The Bird.\n\nPaul Morand, Brancusi exh. cat. (New York: Brummer Gallery, 1926), n.p. (cat. 20, ill., pl. 20), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nWalter Pach, Memorial Exhibition of Representative Works Selected from the John Quinn Collection exh. cat. (New York: Art Center, 1926), p. 12 (cat. 85), as Bird.\n\nPossibly Forbes Watson, John Quinn 1870\u20131925 [sic]: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Sculpture (Huntington, New York: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926), p. 27, as Bird.\n\nC. J. Bulliet, \u201cArtless Comment on The Seven Arts,\u201d Chicago Evening Post Magazine of Art (January 11, 1927), p. 3, as Golden Bird.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Brancusi exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1927), n.p. (cat. 20), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nHarvard Society for Contemporary Art, Exhibition of the School of Paris: 1910\u20131928 exh. cat. (Cambridge: Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, 1929), n.p., (cat. 29), as Golden Bird.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1933), n.p. (cat. 8, ill.), as Golden Bird.\n\nE. W. S., A Selection of Works by Twentieth-Century Artists exh. cat. (Chicago: Renaissance Society, 1934), n.p. (cat. 3, ill.), as Flight of Bird, 1919.\n\nChristian Zervos, Cahiers d\u2019Art 10, nos. 1-4, (Paris: \u00c9ditions Cahiers d\u2019Art, 1935), n.p. (ill.).\n\nCincinnati Modern Art Society, Four Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Modern Art Society, 1946), n.p., as Bird in Flight.\n\nW. R. Valentiner, Origins of Modern Sculpture exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1946), pp. 6\u20137, as Bird in Flight.\n\nW. R. Valentiner, Origins of Modern Sculpture exh. cat. (Saint Louis: City Art Museum of Saint Louis, 1946), p. 19 (cat. 81), as Bird in Flight.\n\nV. G. Paleolog, Brancusi, 1947, pp. 39, 44.\n\nAndrew Carnduff Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1952), p. 41 (cat. 10), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nIonel Jianou, Constantin Brancusi, 1957, pl. 46.\n\nIonel Jianou, Brancusi (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1963), pp. 55, 103 (no. II), 104, 170 (ill., fig. 46), 171, as Bird in Space (Golden Bird) II, 1919; and Bird in Space (Golden Bird), 1925.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Drawings 1916\/1966: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Arts Club of Chicago exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1966), n.p. (ill.).\n\nSidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968), pp. 69 (ill., fig. 117), 200, 223\u2013224 (cat. 117), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nB. L. Reid, The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 473, as Bird.\n\nSidney Geist, Constantin Brancusi 1876\u20131957: A Retrospective Exhibition exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1969), pp. 94\u201395 (ill.), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nAthena T. Spear, Brancusi\u2019s Birds (New York University Press for the College Art Association, 1969), pp. 12\u20133, 35, 46, 70 (ill., pl. 13), 71 (cat. 8), 115, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nAthena T. Spear, \u201cLetter to the Editor,\u201d The Art Bulletin 52, no. 1 (March, 1970), p. 111, as Golden Bird.\n\nSidney Geist, \u201cThe Birds of Brancusi: A Critique of the Catalog of a Recent Brancusi Monograph,\u201d Artforum 9, no. 3 (November, 1970), pp. 77 (no. 8, ill.), 79, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nAthena T. Spear, \u201cExhibition Review: Constantin Brancusi,\u201d The Art Quarterly XXXIV, 2 (1971), p. 239, as Golden Bird.\n\nSidney Geist, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings (Harry N. Abrams, 1975), pp. 91 (ill.), 183 (cat. 125), 195, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nConstantin Brancusi, Omagiu lui Brancusi (Sibiu: Rivista Tribuna, 1976), n.p. (ill.), as Pasarea de Aur, 1919.\n\nPossibly Tretie Paleolog, De vorba cu Brancusi despre \u201cCalea Sufletelor Eroilor\u201d (Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism, 1976), p. 31 (ill.). \n\nV. G. Paleolog, Brancusi\u2013Brancusi vol. I (Craiova: Scrisul Romanesc, 1976), pp. 99, 100 (ill., fig. 47), 102, as Pasarea de Aur \/ Golden Bird.\n\nDan Grigorescu, Br\u00e2ncusi (Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1977), p. 41, as Golden Bird.\n\nJudith Zilczer, \u201cThe Noble Buyer:\u201d John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978), p. 56 (ill., fig. 43), 151, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nMarielle Tabart and Isabelle Monod Fontaine, Brancusi photographe (Paris: Mus\u00e9e national d'art moderne, 1979), pp. 11, 27 (ill., fig. 15), 38 (ill., fig. 26), 39 (ill., fig. 27), 118 (cat. 15), 119 (cat. 27), as L\u2019oiseau d\u2019or, 1919.\n\nNina Stanculescu, Br\u00e2ncusi (Bucharest: Editura Albatros, 1981), n.p. (ill.), as Pasarea de aur, 1919.\n\nSidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1983), pp. 69 (ill., fig. 117), 200, 223\u2013224 (cat. 117), 266 (cat. 125), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nIonel Jianu, Constantin Brancusi: Viata si opera (Bucharest: Editura stiintifica si enciclopedica, 1983), n.p. (ill., fig. 46), as Pasarea in vazduh (Pasarea de aur), 1919.\n\nDan Grigorescu, Brancusi and the Romanian Roots of His Art (Bucharest: Meridiane Publishing House, 1984), pp. 102 (ill.), 107\u20138, 122, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nRobert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, Elise K. Kenney, eds., The Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), p. 85, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nTate Gallery, Pound\u2019s Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1985), p. 103 (ill.), as L\u2019Oiseau d\u2019Or, 1919-22.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and the Arts Club of Chicago, 1916\u20131931 exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1986), n.p., (cat. 9, ill.), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nPontus Hulten, Natalia Dumitresco, and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi (Paris: Flammarion, 1986), pp. 106\u2013107, 135, 180, 294 (cat. 108a, ill.), as L\u2019Oiseau d\u2019or, 1919.\n\nRadu Varia, Brancusi (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), pp. 45 (ill.), 222, 232, 233 (ill.), as Golden Bird, 1919. \n\nFriedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi: Metamorphosen Plasticher Form (Cologne: Dumont Buchverlag, 1987), pp. 155, 158 (ill., fig. 224), 340 (ill., fig. 369), 344 (ills., figs. 379, 380), 456, 457 (cat. 155), as Goldener Vogel, 1919. \n\nIon Mocioi, Estetica Operei Lui Constantin Brancusi (Craiova: Scrisul Romanesc, 1987), p. 100 (fig. 45, ill.), as Pasare de aur (Ib), 1919. \n\nRichard Christiansen, \u201c$12 million deal keeps sculpture in Chicago,\u201d Chicago Tribune (December 31, 1989), section 1, pp. 1 (ill.), 10, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nRichard Christiansen, \u201cTreasured sculpture saved for city,\u201d Chicago Tribune (December 31, 1989), section 1, pp. 1 (ill.), 10, as Golden Bird, 1919. \n\nEric Shanes, Modern Masters Series: Constantin Brancusi (New York: Abbeville Press, 1989), pp. 34, 36 (ill., fig. 31), 37, as Golden Bird, 1919. \n\nAlf Siewers, \u201cInstitute will get a Brancusi in $12 million Arts Club deal,\u201d Chicago Sun-Times (December 31, 1989), p. 4 (ill.), as Golden Bird.\n\nAlan G. Artner, \u201cArt Institute to place 11 works up for auction,\u201d Chicago Tribune (April 26, 1990), section 15, p, 7, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nSidney Geist, \u201cBrancusi: The Endless Column,\u201d Museum Studies 16, no. 1 (1990), pp. 71, 72 (ill., fig. 2), 86, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nFriedrich Teja Bach, Brancusi: Photo Reflexion exh. cat. (Paris: Didier Imbert Fine Art, 1991), pp. 12 (ill., fig. 4), as L\u2019Oiseau d\u2019or.\n\nFlorence M. Hetzler, ed., Art and Philosophy: Brancusi, The Courage to Love (New York: Peter Lang, 1991), p. 112, as the Golden Bird, about 1919.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition: 1916\u20131991 exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1992), p. 72, as Golden Bird.\n\nMargherita Andreotti, \u201cBrancusi\u2019s Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture,\u201d Museum Studies v. 19, no. 2 (1993), pp. cover (ill.), 134 (ill.), 135-40 (ill.), 141-43 (ill.), 144 (ill.), 145 (ill.), 146-47 (ill.), 148-50 (ill.), 151 (ill.), 152 (ill.), 153 (ill.), 198-203, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nDan Grigorescu, Brancusi and His Century (Bucharest: Editura Artemis, 1993), pp. 28, 31, n.p. (ill., pl. 49), as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, \u201cSelected Recent Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Burlington Magazine 135, 1087 (Oct.\u00a01993), p.\u00a0728, fig.\u00a014, as Golden bird,\u00a01919-20.\n\nMaria Nastase, \u201cEmotia \u00eent\u00e2lnirii cu Br\u00e2ncusi la Chicago,\u201d Cotidianul (August 8, 1994), n.p.? (ill.), as Pasarea maiastra.\n\nSandra Miller, Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of His Work (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. xviii, 151, n.p. (ill., pl. 112), 231, as Golden Bird, 1916.\n\nMargit Rowell, Friedrich Teja Bach, and Ann Temkin, Constantin Brancusi: 1876\u20131957 exh. cat. (Paris: Gallimard\/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995), pp. 58 (ill., fig. 9), 62 (ill., fig. 14), 172 (cat. 52, ill., fig. 1), 173 (ill.), 202 (ill.), 314\u2013315 (ill., fig. 10), 380 (ills., figs. 33, 41), 381, as L'Oiseau d'or, 1919\/1920.\n\nMarielle Tabart, Brancusi: l\u2019inventeur de la sculpture moderne (Paris: Gallimard\/Centre Georges-Pompidou, 1995), pp. 61 (ill.), 72 (ill.), as L\u2019Oiseau d\u2019or, 1919-1920.\n\nJames N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), pp. 48 (ill.), 158, as Golden Bird, 1919\/20.\n\nArthur C. Danto, The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000), pp. 182, 184, as Golden Bird, 1919-20.\n\nMarielle Tabart, Les carnets de l'atelier Brancusi, Regards historiques: Brancusi et Duchamp (Paris: \u00c9ditions du Centre Pompidou, 2000), p. 37 (ill., fig. 19).\n\nJames N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), n.p. (ill.), as Golden Bird, 1919\/20.\n\nIlarie Hinoveanu, Memorialul Brancusi: pasi pe nisipul eternitatii sau cazna legamantului cu demiurgul (Craiova: Literatorul, 2001), pp. 20-1, as Golden Bird.\n\nMarielle Tabart, L\u2019Oiseau dans l\u2019espace (Paris: \u00c9ditions du Centre Pompidou, 2001), pp. 8 (ill., no. 105), 10, 15 (ill., fig. 2), 26 (ill., no. 8), 27, 42, 47 (ill., fig. 1), 64, 74 (cat. 4), 75 (cats. 5-7, ill.), 76 (cat. 8, ill.), 101 (cats. 101-104, ills.), 102 (cat. 105), as L\u2019Oiseau d\u2019or, 1919.\n\nConstantin Brancusi, La dation Brancusi: dessins et archives exh. cat. (Paris: Centre national d\u2019art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 2003), pp. 132, 144\u2013147, 148, as Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nRadu C. Varia, Brancusi: Photographe exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Hopkins Custot, 2003), pp. 42 (cat. 18), 43 (ill.), as L\u2019Oiseau d\u2019or, circa 1921.\n\nPaola Mola, ed., Brancusi: The White Work exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2005), pp. 113 (ill., fig. 63), 158-9, as The Golden Bird, 1919.\n\nHugh Eakin, Picasso\u2019s War: How Modern Art Came to America (New York: Crown, 2022), 162, 186, 189 (not ill.).","exhibition_history":"New York, Sculptor\u2019s Gallery, Exhibition of Contemporary French Art, March 24\u2013April 10, 1922, n.p. (cat. 14), as Bird, 1921.\n\nPossibly New York, Art Center, Memorial Exhibition of Representative Works Selected from the John Quinn Collection, January 7\u201330, 1926, p. 12 (cat. 85), as Bird.\n\nPossibly New York, Wildenstein Galleries, The Exhibition of Tri-National Art: French, British, American, February\u2013March 3, 1926, n.p. (cat. 146), as The Bird.\n\nNew York, Brummer Gallery, Brancusi Exhibition, November 17\u2013December 15, 1926, n.p. (cat. 20, ill., pl. 20), as Golden Bird, 1919; traveled to Chicago, Arts Club, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Brancusi, January 4\u201318, 1927, n.p. (cat. 20).\n\nCambridge, Mass., Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Exhibition of the School of Paris: 1910\u20131928, March 20\u2013April 12, 1929, n.p. (cat. 29), as Golden Bird.\n\nChicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors, June 2, 1933, n.p., (cat. 8, ill.), as The Golden Bird.\n\nChicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, A Selection of Works by Twentieth-Century Artists, June 20\u2013August 20, 1934, n.p. (cat. 3, ill.), as Flight of Bird, 1919.\n\nDetroit, Institute of Arts, Origins of Modern Sculpture, January 22\u2013March 3, 1946, pp. 6\u20137, as Bird in Flight; traveled to St. Louis, City Art Museum, March 30\u2013May 1, 1946, p. 19 (cat. 81), as Bird in Flight.\n\nCincinnati Modern Art Society\/Curt Valentin, organizers; Four Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, n.p., as Bird in Flight; traveled to Cincinnati Art Museum, October 1\u2013November 15, 1946. \n\nPhiladelphia, Museum of Art and the Fairmount Park Art Association, organizers, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, p. 41 (cat. 10), as Golden Bird, 1919; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, January 22\u2013March 8, 1953 (Chicago only).\n\nSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum (organizer), Constantin Brancusi 1876\u20131957: A Retrospective Exhibition, pp. 94\u201395 (ill.), as Golden Bird, 1919; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 23\u2013November 15, 1969; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 21, 1969\u2013February 15, 1970; Art Institute of Chicago, March 14\u2013April 26, 1970. \n\nPhiladelphia, Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi 1876\u20131957: A Retrospective Exhibition, September 23\u2013October 30, 1969, pp. 94\u201395 (ill.), as Golden Bird, 1919; traveled to New York, Solomon R. 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