Eve

Year: 1959

Material: Bronze, less block base

Size: 72 inches

The bronze shown here is in the residence, U.S. Embassy, Paris; another is in the Columbus (OH) Museum of Art; two others are in a private collections. "Lewis Iselin's chastity of line and formal reticence are well matched to the Biblical images which dominate his new exhibition of bronzes. The attenuated female figure, usually defined by an austere though fluent sweep of dress, is, variously, inward as Eve; insolent, nude and desperate as Mary Magdaline; abstracted and hieratic as the Virgin; rendered, in Lot's Wife, with a curiously sinuous, eerie twist of the neck. The luster and archaic glow of Iselin's surfaces complete his tone of reveren ce, composure and elegance. . . . R.n."—Art News (May 1960).

Eve in Southern Accents Magazine

Year: 1959

Material: Bronze, less block base

Size: 72 inches

Southern Accents (March 1991): “Sculptor Lewis Iselin’s willowy bronze damsel stands near the staircase in the airy entrance hall. [The owners] had admired a piece like it during a sojourn at the American Embassy in Paris. After scouring the capitals of Europe, they finally located the artist in Maine and were able to obtain one of three identical sculptures he had executed.”

Eve in California

Year: 1959

Material: Bronze, less block base

Size: 72 inches

At home in California.