American Art
American Art
HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH | THE DANCERS (PAS DE DEUX, TARANTELLA)
Auction Closed
September 17, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH
1880 - 1980
THE DANCERS (PAS DE DEUX, TARANTELLA)
inscribed HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH © 1921 (on the base) and stamped GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/QBOS (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
height: 16 ¾ inches (42.6 cm) on a ¾ inch (1.9 cm) marble base
Private collection, Kingston, Pennsylvania
By descent to the present owner
Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 122-23, 208, another example illustrated.
Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 155, another example referenced.
Janis Conner, Frank Hohmann, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, Thayer Tolles, et. al, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 158-59, 241, no. 1921:4, another example illustrated.
The Dancers was cast in an edition of 58 and produced exclusively by Gorham Manufacturing Company.