Born in Poland in 1882, Nadelman lived in various cities throughout Europe, including ten years in Paris, until settling in the United States in 1914, where he remained until his death in 1946. It was during his years in America that Nadelman developed his unique style, in which he applied the aesthetic formulae he developed in Europe to subjects drawn from American society and popular culture. This balancing act that Nadelman performed between the classical and the contemporary lies at the root of his art…