Anna Vaughan Hyatt (1876-1973)

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Anna Vaughan Hyatt (1876-1973)

'Reaching Jaguar', A Bronze Figure

inscribed 'Anna V. Hyatt' and '#231' and stamped 'Gorham Co. 038'
6½in. (16.5cm.) high; greenish black patina

Literature

The Whitney Museum, 200 Years of American Art, New York, 1974, pp. 142-143, fig. 210.
P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 246-247, fig. 268
A.T.E. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, pp. 124-125.
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 52-53

Lot Essay

The present bronze is a reduction of the life-size model sculpted by the artist in 1906 as a study of Senor Lopez, a jaguar from Paraguay at the New York Zoological Gardens. Also entitled Reaching Panther, it is a companion piece to the figure of the jaguar rouching on a rock.

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