HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1979), dated 1921

"The Vine", A Bronze Figure

Details

HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1979), dated 1921
Frishmuth, Harriet Whitney
"The Vine", A Bronze Figure
inscribed '19@21/HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH' and stamped 'GORHAM CO.FOUNDERS/QBWS'
rich brown patina
12in. high

Literature

Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths (New York, 1973), pp.44-46, 127.
Brookegreen Gardens, The Sculpture of Harriet Frishmuth (Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1937).
B.G. Proske, Brookegreen Gardens Sculpture (Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed.), p.226.

Lot Essay

In 1921, Frishmuth conceived one of her most commercially successful models, The Vine, a small statuette posed by Ren Wilde. Two years later, she enlarged the figure to include in a major exhibition of sculpture being organized by the National Sculpture Society. The life size version was awarded the Julia A. Shaw Memorial Prize for the finest sculpture done by an American woman at the National Academy of Design in 1923.