Brancusi and America 1

Constantin Brancusi: Bird in Space, 1928, bronze, 54 by 8 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Constantin Brancusi: Bird in Space, 1928, bronze, 54 by 8 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Constantin Brancusi: The Newborn, Version I, 1920, bronze, 5 3/4 by 8 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches. Museum of Modern Art. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
David Smith: Cubi XXVII, 1965, stainless steel, 111 3/8 by 87 3/4 by 34 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. © Estate of David Smith/VAGA at ARS.
Constantin Brancusi: Portrait of James Joyce, ca. 1928, cardboard and metal, 30 inches in diameter. Moderna Museet, Stockholm. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, 1946, white lacquered bronze, 36 by 36 by 4½ inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.
Constantin Brancusi: Princess X, 1915–16, polished bronze, 24 1/4 by 16 by 8 3/4 inches on limestone block 7 1/4 by 7 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Constantin Brancusi: Endless Column, Version I, 1918, oak, 80 by 9 7/8 by 9 5/8 inches. Museum of Modern Art. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Constantin Brancusi’s The Gate of the Kiss in Targu-Jiu, Romania. Photo omihay/Shutterstock.
Robert Rauschenberg: Odalisk, 1955–58, mixed mediums, 83 by 25 1/4 by 25 1/8 inches. Museum Ludwig, Cologne. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Brancusi: Maiastra, 1910–12, white marble, 22 inches tall, on a 70-inch-tall three-part limestone pedestal, of which the middle section is Double Caryatid, ca. 1908. Museum of Modern Art. © Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
View of the exhibition “Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi,” 2017, showing (left to right) King of Kings, ca. 1938; The Sorceress, 1916–24; and Adam and Eve, 1921. Photo David Heald. © Succession Brancusi/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
View of “Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective” at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2008. Photo Adam Rzepka. © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS.