Alice Morgan Wright (1881-1976)

'The Evening and the Morning were the Fifth Day', A Bronze Figure

Details

Alice Morgan Wright (1881-1976)
'The Evening and the Morning were the Fifth Day', A Bronze Figure
inscribed 'A.M. Wright'
20½in. (52.1cm.) high, green patina

Literature

B. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 275
B. Fahlman, Sculpture and Suffrage: The Art and Life of Alice Morgan Wright, Albany Institute of History and Art, 1978, p. 24, cat. no. 20 Rutgers University Art Gallery, Vanguard American Sculpture 1913-1939, Rutgers, New Jersey, 1979, p. 36-37
I.S. Fort, The Figure In American Sculpture, A Question of Modernity, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1995, p. 233

Lot Essay

The title of the present bronze refers to the Book of Genesis I:20-23 when God created the living creatures of the air and water, "Let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens." The other example of this model is the collection of the Albany Institute of History and Art.

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