ADOLPH ALEXANDER WEINMAN (1870-1952)

Lot 347
23.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
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ID 1360527
Lot 347 | ADOLPH ALEXANDER WEINMAN (1870-1952)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
ADOLPH ALEXANDER WEINMAN (1870-1952)
Chief Blackbird
inscribed 'CHIEF/BLACK/BIRD./OGALALLA [sic]/SIOUX./A·A·WEINMAN' (along the proper left shoulder)—stamped with foundry mark 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.' (along the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high
Modeled in 1903.




Literature

P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 197-99, pl. 201, another example illustrated.
The Brooklyn Museum, The American Renaissance, 1876-1917, Brooklyn, New York, 1979, p. 228, no. 70, another example illustrated.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Art of the American West, North Birmingham, Alabama, 1983, pp. 34-35, no. 25, another example illustrated.
G.A. Reynolds, American Bronze Sculpture: 1850 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, Newark, New Jersey, 1984, p. 32, another example illustrated.
S.E. Menconi, Uncommon Spirit: Sculpture in America 1800-1940, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, pp. 46-47, another example illustrated (as Chief Blackbird, Ogalalla [sic] Sioux).
L.D. Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2002, pp. 105-06, another example illustrated.
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