Lot Essay
'Allegresse' was awarded the Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal of the National Academy in 1921. Another example of this work is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan.
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Property from a Pennsylvania Estate
Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955)
'Allegresse'
Details
Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955)
'Allegresse'
inscribed 'Bessie Potter Vonnoh/no. A.IX' and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (on the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
26 in. (66.0 cm.) high
'Allegresse'
inscribed 'Bessie Potter Vonnoh/no. A.IX' and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (on the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
26 in. (66.0 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner, prior to 1990.
Literature
National Sculpture Society, Exhibition of American Sculpture Catalogue, New York, 1923, p. 241.
National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture, New York, 1929, p. 322.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, p. 82.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1969, p. 50.
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 165, 167.
C.S. Rubenstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 113.
National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture, New York, 1929, p. 322.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, p. 82.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1969, p. 50.
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 165, 167.
C.S. Rubenstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 113.