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Hermon Atkins MacNeil 1866 - 1947
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
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
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