'The Star'

Details

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
'The Star'
inscribed and dated 'Harriet W Frishmuth 1918 ©,' stamped 'Gorham Co Founders Q505' and numbered '229' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
19¼ in. (48.9 cm.) high

Literature

C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 101-105, 206, illustration of another example

Sale room notice

Please note that this work will be included in Leah Rosenblatt's forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth.

Lot Essay

The Star was conceived as a small bronze statuette in 1918. Because of its commercial success, the artist enlarged the model and had it cast as a life-size bronze in 1923. A life-size bronze of The Star is in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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