Henry Di Spirito (1898-1995)
Bee

granite
11 x 14 x 9 1/2 in. (27.9 x 35.5 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1949

Paul Coonradt, New Hartford
Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1952
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980

J. Barnitz et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, New York, 1988, vol II, p. 185.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Di Spirito, Kriesberg, Mintz, May-July 1951, no. 3.
Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Sculpture by Henry Di Spirito, November 1957, no. 5 (illustrated).
Radnor, Gulph Mill, Sculpture by Henry Di Spirito, September-October 1964.
Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy, Henry Di Spirito, June-July 1968.

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