All exhibitions listed are solo shows except those marked with an asterisk (*).

1882
 March 19
Born in Paris.
1895
 Enters Ecole Bernard Palissy to study sculpture.
1898
 Enters the Académie Nationale des Beaux-Arts
to study in the Atelier Gabriel Jules Thomas.


1899-1904
 Exhibits in the Annual Salon*.
Military service. Meets Isabel Dutaud Nagle.


1904-05
 Leaves the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Begins work for René Lalique.
1906
 January 13
Arrives in Boston.
1906-12
 In Boston, working for Henry Hudson Kitson.
1912-13
 Leaves Kitson, works independently.
Meets Paul Manship and becomes his assistant.
1913
 February
Exhibition*: The Armory Show, New York, NY.
Lachaise is represented by Nude with Coat (lf 115).
1916
 Becomes citizen of the United States.
1917
 June 25
Marries Isabel Dutaud Nagle, New York NY.
1918
 February 13–March 9
First Exhibition: Stephan Bourgeois Galleries, New York, NY
Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Gaston Lachaise
Elevation (lf 55) shown in plaster.
Henry McBride praises exhibit.
1920
 January 31–February 21
Second Exhibition: Stephan Bourgeois Galleries,
New York, NY.
Catalogue: Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Gaston Lachaise.
Introductory essay by Stephan Bourgeois.

Appreciation of Lachaise by e.e. cummings published in The Dial.

1921
 Commission: Frieze commissioned for the
American Telephone and Telegraph Building, New York, NY.
1922
 Joins C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY.
Resigns as Director, Society of Independent Artists.
1924
 January 15–February 16
Exhibition*: C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY.
Lachaise is the only sculptor represented
Catalogue: An Important Collection of Paintings, Marbles, Bronzes.
Introduction by Guy Pène du Bois.
Publication: Gallatin book, Gaston Lachaise, published.
1925-26
 December 22–January 26
Exhibition: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Catalogue: Original Sculpture by Gaston Lachaise.
1927
 Exhibition: Alfred Stieglitz's The Intimate Gallery.
Floating Woman (lf 63) shown in plaster.
1928
 February 27–March 24
Exhibition: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Lachaise. Essay by Henry McBride.
1931
 Reliefs executed for R.C.A. Building,
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.
1932
 Large plaster relief for Century of Progress Exposition,
Chicago World's Fair.
Exhibition: Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1933
 Heroic Standing Woman (lf 92), 1930-33, cast in bronze.

1934
 Reliefs for International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York.
La Montagne (lf 186) executed in cement.
1935
 January 30–March 7
Exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise Retrospective Exhibition.
Introduction by Lincoln Kirstein.
Commission: Received for Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, PA, Welcoming the Peoples.
October 17
Death of Lachaise, New York, NY.


1937
 April 20–May 7
Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Drawings and Small Sculptures by Gaston Lachaise.
1938
 January 31–February 19
Exhibition: Valentin Gallery, New York, NY.
Man (lf 85) first shown in bronze.
February 12–April 4
Exhibition: Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn, NY.
1947
 January 20-February 15
Exhibition: M. Knoedler & Co.,
New York, NY.
Catalogue: Lachaise.
Introduction by Lincoln Kirstein.
1954
 Exhibition*: XXVII Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2 Pittori, de Kooning, Shahn, 3 Sculptori, Lachaise, Lassaw, Smith.
United States entry.
1955-56
 December 27–January 28
Exhibition: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Lachaise: Exhibition of Drawings and Sculpture.
Introduction by e.e. cummings.
1957
 January 28–February 23
Exhibition: Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, MA.
Dynamo Mother (lf 104) first exhibited.
1959
 Summer
Exhibition: Moscow*, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
United States National Art Exhibition.
Included: Standing Woman, The Museum of Modern Art (lf 92).
1963-64
December 3–January 19
Travelling Exhibition:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA.
Travelled to: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 18–April 5.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
Introduction by Gerald Nordland. Bibliography, chronology
and catalogue information by Donald Goodall.
1963-65
 Exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY.
Gaston Lachaise, a circulating exhibition of 26 sculptures and 16 drawings.
1964
 February 18–March 14
Exhibition: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY.
Catalogue: An Exhibition of Portraits by Gaston Lachaise.
1965
 April 5–May 1
Exhibition: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
Exhibition: Musee Rodin,
Paris, France.
Etats-Unis, Sculptures du XXe Siecle.
1966
 February 1–19
Exhibition: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Drawings and Sculpture by Gaston Lachaise.
1967
 Travelling Exhibition: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
This exhibition has included up to 45 sculptures and 20 drawings and, by April of 1998, had been shown at 119 museums, galleries and universities throughout the United States and Canada.
This show has been expanded to travel in Europe (2003–06).
1973
 October 20–November 29
Exhibition: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings
(emphasis on the later works).
1974
 Publication: Gerald Nordland's book,
Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, is published.
1974-75
November 6–December 20
Travelling Retrospective Exhibition:
Herbert F. Johnson Museum,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Travelled to: Wight Art Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA,
January 12–February 23;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, March 8–April 20; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, June 7–20.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise. Introduction by Gerald Nordland.
1979
 January 20–March 4
Exhibition: Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
Introduction by Gerald Nordland.
1980
 March 5–April 27
Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: A Concentration of Work by Gaston Lachaise from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Introduction and notes by Patterson Sims.
April–July
Exhibition*: Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, MA
and Bowdoin College Museum,
Brunswick, ME.
Catalogue: Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman and Archipenko.
Essay by Jeanne L. Wasserman with contributions by James B. Cuno.
October 13-November 24
Exhibition: California State College, San Bernardino, CA.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
Essay by Deborah Waters.
1982
 February 27–March 24
Exhibition: Robert J. Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise, Twenty Sculptures.
Introduction by Dominique Fourcade.
July–August
Exhibition: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries,
New York, NY.
Selected Drawings of Gaston Lachaise.
November 19–December 19
Exhibition: Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise, 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Sculpture and Drawings.
Essay by Herschel B. Chipp.
1983-84
 December 16–January 31
Exhibition: Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CA.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
1984
 May 16–September 16
Exhibition: Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, ME.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings.
Essay and notes by John Holverson.
1985
 April 18–May 9
Exhibition: PLS Galleries, Dallas, TX.
"Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings of Gaston Lachaise."
1985-86
 November 22–February 17
Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture.
Essay by Carolyn Kinder Carr. Text by Margaret C.S. Christman.
1989
 March 9–April 15
Exhibition*: Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY.
The Art of Style: A Look at Sculptors, Diederich, Lachaise and Nakian.
1992
 January 2–February 22
Travelling Exhibition:
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY.
Travelled to: Houston, Texas, Meredith Long & Co., March 4–March 28.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture.
Essay by Barbara Rose.
1994
January 6–February 26
Travelling Exhibition:
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York,
Gaston Lachaise: The Monumental Sculpture.
Travelled to the Nassau County Museum of Art, May 20, 1994–September 17, 1995; the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, October 3, 1995–March 31, 1996.
1998
 April 28–May 30
Exhibition: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries,
New York, NY.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings. Essay by Hilton Kramer.
1999
 October 7–30
Exhibition: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries,
New York, NY.
Gaston Lachaise: Reliefs.
Catalogue: Essay by Steven Harvey.
2001
April 12–June 23
Travelling Exhibition*: Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France.
Travelled to: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, October 10-December 31; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, 18 January-March 31, 2002.
Catalogue: Made in USA: L'art américain, 1908-1947. Essay by Éric de Chassey.
2002
 January 10–March 2
Exhibition: Hackett-Freedman Gallery,
San Francisco, California.
Catalogue: Gaston Lachaise Sculpture: Woman, Goddess, and Idol, 1910-1935, Essay by Gerald Nordland.
2003

February 8–May 4
Exhibition: Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, United Kingdom.
Refashioning the Figure: Gaston Lachaise and 'Elevation'.
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June 21–September 7
Travelling Exhibition: La Piscine, Musee d'art et d'industrie de Roubaix, Roubaix, France.
Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935.
Travelled to: Galleria Nazionale d'artemoderna, Museo Hendrik C. Andersen, Rome, Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935.
French Catalogue: (Editions Gallimard). Essays by Bruno Gaudichon, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Clair, Hilton Kramer, Paula Hornbostel and Gaston Lachaise, poem by Baudelaire.
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October 10–January 11, 2004
Exhibition: Il Museo Hendrik C. Andersen,
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy.
Gaston Lachaise
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2004
 January 22–May 9
Exhibition*: Museo d'arte moderna, Bologna, Italy.
Il Nudo fra Ideale e Realtà
(The Nude: Ideal and Reality).
March
Travelling Exhibition*: Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Great Parade: The Artist as Clown, Grand Palais, Paris.
Travelled to: National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, June 25–September 19, 2004.
June 16–September 30
Exhibition: Museums of the Departement du Lot:
Musée Rignault, St. Cirq-la-Popie; Musée Zadkine, Les Arques;
Conseil Générale, Cahors; Gaston Lachaise, 1882–1935.
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2005
 September 29–January 8, 2006
Exhibition: Szépmûvészeti Múseum, Budapest, Hungary.
Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935.
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2006
 October 18–January 7, 2007
Exhibition: Veletržní Palác, Narodni Galerie
(Tradefair Palace, part of the National Gallery);
Prague, Czech Republic.
Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935).
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2007
 September 8–October 28
Exhibition: New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935).
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November 17–February 24, 2008
Exhibition: Nasher Scupture Center
Dallas, Texas, United States.
Woman: The Art of Gaston Lachaise.
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This chronology is highly selective and does not include major group exhibitions in which Lachaise has been represented. In addition to the collection of the Lachaise Foundation in Boston, the Lachaise archives at Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut, contain an extensive deposit of correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, catalogues, and other special material.