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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
The Star
inscribed 'HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH 1918' (on the base)--stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS Q505' and inscribed '203' (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
19¼ in. (48.9 cm.) high on a ¾ in. (1.9 cm.) marble base
Modeled in 1918.
Provenance
Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1940s.
By descent to the present owner, 1980.
Literature
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 34-35, another example illustrated.
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 101-05, 206, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, pp. 35, 38-39, 42, other examples 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. 20, 30-31, 66-67, 79n80, 99, 106, 107n10, 143-45, 148, 220, 237, 277, no. 1918:3, another example illustrated.
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Lot Essay

"With The Star, Frishmuth and [her favorite model] Desha explored a more restrained mood--emotion contained within, passion was expressed more cerebrally than physically. In an interview late in life, Frishmuth explained that The Star was a three-dimensional expression of advice received from her mother: 'You must reach for the unattainable.'" (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, p. 30)

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