Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

Joy of the Waters

Lot closes

October 1, 04:23 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Starting Bid

20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collector

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

1880-1980

Joy of the Waters

inscribed Harriet W. Frishmuth Sc. 1912 and Roman Bronze Works, Inc N.Y. (on the base)

bronze

height: 61 in.

154.9 cm.

Modeled in 1917.

The present work is one of 44 total editions cast between 1920 and 1971, only 12 of which were cast by Roman Bronze Works.

Private Collection, San Marino, California

Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 16 February 1984, lot 222 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 23 May 2007, lot 116 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Beatrice Gilman Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, p. 224

Charles N. Aronson, Sculpted Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 26, 107-109, 206, another example illustrated

Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 37, 410-41, another example illustrated

Charles H. Charpenter, Gorham Silver: 1831 - 1981, New York, 1982, no. 149, pp. 155-156, another example illustrated

Dick Kagan, "Sentinels of the Garden," Art at Auction, April 1996, p. 67

Janis Conner, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, and Thayer Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, no. 1917:3, pp. 28, 66, 86, 200, 236, 277, 278, another example illustrated