Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection

Hermon Atkins MacNeil

Chief of the Multnomah Tribe

Auction Closed

April 20, 09:25 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Hermon Atkins MacNeil

1866 - 1947

Chief of the Multnomah Tribe

inscribed H.A. MacNeil / 05, MVLTNOMAH, and Roman Bronze Works N.Y. (along the base)

bronze

37¾ in. (95.9 cm.) high

Conceived in 1903; this example cast circa 1905.

James Graham & Sons, New York

Arthur Rubloff, Chicago

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, May 22, 1994, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Wolf Family Collection No. 1094 (acquired from the above)

Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, vol. II, New York, 1999, no. 212, pp. 480-81, illustration of another cast

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989 (on loan)

Denver, Denver Art Museum, 2003-23 (on loan)

Hermon Atkins MacNeil received a commission in 1902 to produce a monument entitled The Coming of the White Man for the city of Portland, Oregon. He sculpted two Multnomah men for the project, one of which was the chief and the other was the tribe's spiritual healer. The present work is a bronze reduction of the Multnomah chief, which MacNeil had first incorporated into the monumental bronze.