Sculptor Alan LeQuire has spent the majority of his career honoring women through his portraits.
A walk through his Nashville gallery and studio reveals numerous works, both miniature and monumental in scale, in bronze, plaster, and terra cotta. His colossal Athena Parthenos, the largest indoor sculpture in the western word, recreates one of the most monumental goddess statues of all time and five of his public monuments commemorate women's suffrage in the state that had the final vote to ratify the 19th Amendment.
Just in time for the centennial year of women's suffrage, Elizabeth Cave, director at LeQuire Gallery has curated an exhibit that focuses on portraits of strong women throughout history. The exhibit will take place now through December 19, and will feature more than a dozen of LeQuire's suffrage portraits including Ida B. Wells, Carrie Chapman Catt, J. Frankie Pierce, and Anne Dallas Dudley.
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Alan LeQuire working in clay on his portrait of Anne Dallas Dudley for the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument.
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Colossal portrait head of Billie Holiday by Alan LeQuire. Part of LeQuire’s summer exhibit called Monumental Women.
Throughout the Monumental Women exhibit, LeQuire will also feature new works such as examples of his Caryatids, Women in Drapery, and Women with Animals series. Visitors to the Monumental Women exhibit can also expect to be overwhelmed by LeQuire’s colossal portraits of blues icons Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, both of whom leveraged their careers for the sake of civil rights.
Along with these notables, many other contemporary figurative works by Alan LeQuire will be on display, each representing the strength, perseverance, and physical beauty of women.
For more information, visit LeQuireGallery.com.