HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (AMERICAN, 1880-1980)
The Vine
inscribed '©/1921/HARRIET FRISHMUTH' and 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QBWS' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
11³⁄₄ in. (30 in.) high, without base
Modeled in 1921; cast by 1966.

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. 150-51, 240, no. 1921:1, another example illustrated.

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