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HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
Joy of the Waters
inscribed 'HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH Sc./© 1920' and stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/QBKX' (along the base)
bronze with greenish brown patina
44 in. (111.8 cm.) high
Modeled in 1920.

PROVENANCE
J.H. Small & Sons, Washington, D.C.
Private collection, Frankfort, Michigan, acquired from the above, 1938.
By descent to the present owner.

LITERATURE
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 26, 107-9, another example illustrated.
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 37-38, 40-42, 191, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, vol. II, New York, 2001, p. 640.
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. 28-30, 37-38, 47-48, 67, 79n.80, 146-47, 200, 238, 277, no. 1920:1, another example illustrated.
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