ID 1119084
Lot 291 | HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
Joy of the Waters
inscribed 'HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH Sc./© 1920' and stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/QBKX' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina and verdigris
44 in. (111.8 cm.) high on a 3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) base
Modeled in 1920.
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
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 26, 107-09, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 37-38, 40-42, 191, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, vol. II, New York, 2001, p. 640.
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. 28-30, 37-38, 47-48, 67, 79n80, 146-47, 200, 238, 277, no. 1920:1, another example illustrated.
| Artist: | Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880 - 1980) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Artist: | Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880 - 1980) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
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