Name: The Star
Brand: HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
Price: 14000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
The Star
inscribed 'HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH 1918' (on the base)--stamped and numbered 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS Q505 #31' with foundry device (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
18 ¾ in. (47.6 cm.) high on a 1 ⅛ in. (2.9 cm.) base
Modeled in 1918.

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, illustrated.

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