Lot Essay
Playdays was awarded a Gold Medal by the Garden Club of America in 1928. The model was edited both as a table figure and as a lifesize fountain for the garden.
Details
HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1979)
'Playdays', A Bronze Group of a Nymph and Frogs
inscribed HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH and stamped GORHAM CO FOUNDERS
50 1/8in. (127.5cm.) high, on circular cement base, greenish brown patina, weathered
'Playdays', A Bronze Group of a Nymph and Frogs
inscribed HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH and stamped GORHAM CO FOUNDERS
50 1/8in. (127.5cm.) high, on circular cement base, greenish brown patina, weathered
Literature
National Sculpture Society, Exhibition of American Sculpture: Catalogue, New York, 1929, p. 123, illus.
Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Sculpture by Harriet Frishmuth, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1937, illus.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 224
B.G. Proske, 'Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Lyric Sculptor', Aristos, The Journal of Esthetics, vol. 2, no. 5, June 1984, p. 4
Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Sculpture by Harriet Frishmuth, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1937, illus.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 224
B.G. Proske, 'Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Lyric Sculptor', Aristos, The Journal of Esthetics, vol. 2, no. 5, June 1984, p. 4