HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)

Lot 289
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Lot 289 | HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
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HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)

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inscribed '©/1921/HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH' and stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QBWS' (along the base)

bronze with light green and brown patina

11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high on a 1 in. (2.54 cm.) base

Modeled in 1921; cast by 1966.





Provenance

Grand Central Art Galleries, New York.

Lee E. Phillips, Jr., Wichita, Kansas, acquired from the above, 1948.

By descent to the late owner.



Literature

The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, p. 101, another example illustrated.

B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968, p. 226, another example referenced.

A. Schmavonian, ed., “Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, American Sculptor,” The Courier, vol. IX, no. 1, October 1971, pp. 26-27.

C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 43-46, 87, 127, 200, 202, 208, other examples illustrated.

J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 38-39, another example illustrated.

Eaton Fine Art, Inc., From Neo-Classical and Beaux-Arts to Modernism: A Passage in American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2000, pp. 44-45, another example illustrated.

J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles, F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 31, 33, 46, 58-59, 79, 102, 107n10, 150-51, 176, 240, 277, no. 1921:1, other examples illustrated.
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