
A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong
Chanticleer
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A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong
Albert Laessle
1877 - 1954
Chanticleer
inscribed Albert Laessle, 1912 PHILA and with the foundry mark Roman Bronze Works (on the base)
bronze
height: 16 in. 40.6 cm.
Conceived in 1912.
Conner Rosenkranz, New York
Acquired from the above in 1996 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 108th Annual Exhibition, 1913, no. 708, p. 63, another cast exhibited
“Studio-Talk,” The Studio, vol. 58, no. 241, London, 15 April 1913, pp. 251-52 and 255, another cast mentioned
Exh. Cat., San Francisco, Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, no 269, p. 5, another cast exhibited
Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1916, no. 707, n.p.
Exh. Cat., Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Fine Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, 1916, no. 430, p. 62, another cast exhibited
“Who’s Who in Art,” American Art Annual, vol. 20, New York, 1923, p. 586, another cast mentioned
The American Magazine of Art, vol. XVII, no. 1, Washington, D.C., April 1926, p. 209, another cast mentioned
Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Department of Fine Arts, Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, 1926, no. 1227, p. 85, another cast exhibited
“A Type Lesson,” Pennsylvania School Journal, vol. 76, no. 5, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, December 1927, p. 241, another cast mentioned
Janis C. Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, pp. 192 and 107, illustration of another cast
Dorothy Grafly, The Sculptor’s Clay, Wichita, Kansas, 1996, p. 237, another cast mentioned
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