Lot 55
  • 55

Hermon Atkins MacNeil 1866 - 1947

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Hermon Atkins MacNeil
  • The Sun Vow
  • inscribed H.A. MacNeil and THE SVN VOW with the Roman Bronze Works N.Y. foundry mark and numbered No. 2 beneath the base

  • bronze
  • height: 34 inches
  • (86.5 cm)
  • Conceived in 1899.

Provenance

Corporate Collection, 1979
Acquired by the present owner, circa 2005

Literature

Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1903, fig. 73, pp. 443-444, illustration of another example p. 441
Loring Holmes Dodd, The Golden Age of American Sculpture, Boston, Massachusetts, 1936, illustration of another example p. 90
Albert TenEyck Gardner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Sculpture, New York, 1965, illustration of another example p. 96
Patricia J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 88-89, illustration of other examples pls. 81-82
Daniel Robbins, "Statues to Sculpture," 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York, 1976, p. 139, illustration of another example p. 140
Paul Fees and Sarah E. Boehme, Frontier America, Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, New York, 1988,  illustration of another example p. 71
Lucy Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture, The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2002, no. IV-78, illustration of another example p. 101

Condition

Very good condition. Areas of natural rubbing, particularly on the Indian’s back and shoulders. Few scattered scratches in this area as well. Some overall scattered surface dirt.
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Catalogue Note

The Sun Vow, MacNeil's most famous sculpture, received the silver medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and a gold medal at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.