Lot 210
Lot 210
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)

The Vine

Price Realised USD 17,500
Estimate
USD 7,000 - USD 10,000
Closed: 22 May 2018
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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)

The Vine

Price Realised USD 17,500
Closed: 22 May 2018
Price Realised USD 17,500
Closed: 22 May 2018
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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
The Vine
inscribed '©/1921/HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH' and stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QBWS' (along the base)
bronze with reddish-brown patina
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high on a ¾ in. (1.9 cm.) marble base
Modeled in 1921; cast by 1966.
Provenance
Private collection, Rye, New York, circa 1950s.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, p. 101, another example illustrated.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968, p. 226, another example referenced.
A. Schmavonian, ed., “Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, American Sculptor,” The Courier, vol. IX, no. 1, October 1971, pp. 26-27.
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 43-46, 87, 127, 200, 202, 208, other examples illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 38-39, another example illustrated.
Eaton Fine Art, Inc., From Neo-Classical and Beaux-Arts to Modernism: A Passage in American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2000, pp. 44-45, 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. 31, 33, 46, 58-59, 79, 102, 107n10, 150-51, 176, 240, 277, no. 1921:1, other examples illustrated.
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