Woman in Sorrow

Year: 1950

Material: Bronze

Size: 11 inches high

Iselin, a destroyer-escort skipper in the second world war, has this to say about the head: "There’s a saying in the Navy that when you say good-by it’s always better not to look back, because all you’ll see is this face of sorrow."—Newsweek, March 16, 1953. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; St. Mark’s School, Southborough, MA. Photo by Adolph Studly.