HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)

Lot 330
19.01.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 330 | HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)

Small Spread Eagle

inscribed 'copyrighted/Harriet Frishmuth' and stamped 'GORHAM CO/FOUNDERS' and 'GEX' (along the back of the base)

bronze with dark green patina

7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) high;

23 3/4 in. (60.3 cm.) wide

Modeled in 1910; cast by 1921.





Provenance

Graham Shay 1857, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2018.



Literature

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the 105th Annual Exhibition, January 23 to March 10, 1920, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1910, p. 64, no. 799, another example referenced.

M.B. Hill, The Woman Sculptor: Malvina Hoffman and Her Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1984, p. 37, another example referenced.

J.C. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 42, another example referenced.

J.C. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, New York, 2006, pp. 21, 129, 220, no. 1910:9, another example illustrated.

A.D. Harris, Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, exhibition catalogue, Jackson, Wyoming, 2009, p. 266, another example referenced.
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