ID 1119065
Lot 253 | CHARLES SCHREYVOGEL (1861-1912)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
The Last Drop
inscribed 'Copyrighted 1903 by/Chas. Schreyvogel' (on the base)—inscribed 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)—inscribed 'No 103.' (under the base)
bronze with black patina
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
Modeled in 1903.
Provenance
Private collection, New York.
Estate of the above.
Private collection, New York, gift from the above.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
H. McCracken, Great Painters and Illustrators of the Old West, New York, 1952, p. 202.
E. Ainsworth, The Cowboy in Art, New York, 1968, pp. 48-49, another example illustrated.
J.D. Horan, The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian of the Indian-Fighting Army of the American West, New York, 1969, p. 27, pl. 39, another example illustrated.
P. Rossi, D. Hunt, The Art of the Old West, New York, 1971, p. 230, another example illustrated.
P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 202, 204-05, another example illustrated.
H. McCracken, The West of Buffalo Bill: Frontier Art, Indian Crafts, Memorabilia from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, New York, 1974, p. 196.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Art of the American West, Birmingham, Alabama, 1983, p. 30.
W.C. Foxley, Frontier Spirit: Catalog of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art, exhibition catalogue, Denver, Colorado, 1983, p. 110, no. 76, another example illustrated.
G.A. Reynolds, American Bronze Sculpture: 1850 to the Present, Newark, New Jersey, 1984, p. 23.
Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994, p. 71.
S. Campbell, The American West: People, Places, and Ideas, Corning, New York, 2001, n.p., pl. 62, another example illustrated.
L.D. Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, New York, 2002, p. 138.
T. Tolles, The American West in Bronze: 1850-1925, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013, pp. 116-17, 120-22, 164, 185n14, fig. 146, 152, 153, no. 70, 71, other examples illustrated.
| Artist: | Charles Schreyvogel (1861 - 1912) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Artist: | Charles Schreyvogel (1861 - 1912) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
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