Lot 116
  • 116

HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH, Joy of the Waters

Estimate
125,000 - 175,000 USD
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Description

  • bronze, reddish brown patina

Provenance

Private Collection, San Marino, California (Sale: Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, February 16, 1984, lot 222)
Acquired by the present owners at the above sale

Literature

Beatrice Gilman Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 224
Charles N. Aronson, Sculpted Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 26, 107-109, 206, illustration of another example
Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, p. 410-41, p. 37, illustration of another example
Dick Kagan, "Sentinels of the Garden," Art at Auction, April 1996, p. 67
Janis Conner, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, and Thayer Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, no. 1917:3, pp. 28, 66, 86, 200, 236, 277, 278, illustrated p. 236

Catalogue Note

Charles N. Aronson writes: "Harriet asked model, Janette Ransom, 'Suppose a jet of cold water came up from the floor at your feet right now, what pose would you take?' And Janette said, 'I'd do this,' and took the pose you see when you see Joy of the Waters" (Sculpted Hyacinths, New York, 1973, p. 108).