Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Janet Scudder

Girl With Shell: A Fountain

No reserve

Session begins in

January 24, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Bid

500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Janet Scudder

1869 - 1940


Girl With Shell: A Fountain

inscribed Janet. Scudder (on the base); inscribed Roman Bronze Works N-Y- (along the base)

bronze

height: 15 ¼ in. 38.7 cm.

Conceived circa 1910.

Private Collection, Pennsylvania

Sotheby’s, New York, 1 March 2006, lot 76 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

“The Field of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, vol. LV, no. 1, New York, January 1914, p. 664, another cast illustrated (titled The Shell Fountain)

Exh. Cat., San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, no. 475, p. 7, another cast mentioned (titled Shell Fountain)

William Laurel Harris, “Current News and Comment: Seen in New York,” Good Furniture, vol. 5, no. 2, Grand Rapide, Michigan, August 1915, p. 122, another cast illustrated (titled The Shell Girl)

Bruce M. Donaldson, "American Sculpture at Buffalo," The American Magazine of Art, vol. 7, no. 10, New York, August 1916, p. 418, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Contemporary American Sculpture, June - October 1916, no. 701, p. 71, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago, Small Bronzes of the National Sculpture Society, October 1918, no. 56, n.p., another cast mentioned (titled Shell Fountain)

“The Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists and a Group of Small Selected Bronzes by American Sculptors at the Albright Art Gallery,” Academy Notes, vol. 15, no. 3, Buffalo, New York, July - December 1920, p. 82, another cast mentioned

Janet Scudder, Modeling my Life, New York, 1925, p. 230, another cast illustrated (titled Shell Fountain)

Women at Work: Sculpture from The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1897 - 1947, Washington, D.C., 1987, n.p., another cast illustrated (titled Shell Girl)

Janis Connor and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893 - 1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 156, another cast mentioned