Name: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
Brand: Crest of the Wave
Price: 12000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
Crest of the Wave
inscribed 'HARRIET W FRISHMUTH © 1925' (on the base)--stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QFHL' (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high on a ½ in. (1.2 cm.) marble base
Modeled in 1925; cast by 1929.

The Gorham Company, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1929.
Private collection, Iowa, by descent.
Christie's, New York, 3 March 2011, lot 94, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

The Gorham Company, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 12-13, another example illustrated.
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 158-61, 212, 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. 37, 48, 78n79, 79n80, 80, 85, 85n96, 86, 90-91, 97, 102-03, 178-79, 250, 277, another example illustrated.

(Possibly) New York, The Gorham Company, Famous Small Bronzes: a Representative Exhibit Selected from the Works of Noted Contemporary Sculptors, May 1929.

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Conceived in 1925, Crest of the Wave was cast both in the present size and as a larger fountain figure. The tabletop-sized work is likely to have been the study size for the larger cast, which was a commission. Frishmuth's favorite model, Desha, posed for the piece.