—Henry McBride
Lachaise, above all other sculptors since the Renaissance, is the interpreter of maturity. He is concerned with forms which have completed their growth, which have achieved their prime; forms, as he would say, in the glory of their fulfillment....It is no wonder that to a nation predominantly adolescent Lachaise’s insistence upon the mature is frightening.
—Lincoln Kirstein
In the American sculpture of his period he is pre-eminent, the only artist in the sculptural medium who, through both the quality and the copiousness of his production, comes in on the level of the great European masters and sustains serious comparison with their best efforts.
—Hilton Kramer
"Elevation," 1912-1927