Frederick William MacMonnies

Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1903, p. 341

Exh. Cat., Newark, Newark Museum, Sculpture by 19th Century American Artists in the Collection of the Newark Museum, 1962, pp. 21, 24, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The American Renaissance 1876-1917, 1979, no. 238, p. 226, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Newark, Newark Museum, American Sculpture in the Newark Museum, 1981, p. 413, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, pp. 64-65, illustration of another cast

Frederick William MacMonnies was born in Brooklyn, but spent much of his artistic career studying in Paris and Munich. From his studio in France, MacMonnies continued to receive commissions from his American patrons. With the help of Stanford White, he received the commission for Pan of Rohallion. Originally designed as a fountain figure for a private home in New Jersey, the title "Rohallion" preferences the name of the New Jersey Estate's owner. The subject depicts the Greek god Pan playing his flutes while situated on an orb supported by whimsical fish. MacMonnies later produced several versions of this figure at a reduced size. The present example is one of these reduced versions, executed in a beautiful gilded bronze.