JOHN FLANNAGAN (1895-1942)

Details

JOHN FLANNAGAN (1895-1942)

'Long Bird II', A Parcel-Gilt Bronze Figure of a Pelican

17¾in. (45cm.) high, on wood base

Provenance

With Buchholz Gallery, New York, 1951
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (Gift to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1966)

Literature

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Sculpture of John B. Flannagan, New York, 1942, p. 35, illus.
Flannagan, J.B., "The Image in the Rock", Magazine of Art, March 1942, Vol. 35, no. 3, p. 92
Forsyth, R.J., John B. Flannagan: His Life and Works, Ann Arbor, 1972, pp. 188, 257, 265, 315, 320, illus, no. 86

Exhibited

United States Information Agency, Moscow, American National Exhibition, 25 July-5 September, 1959. This exhibition travelled to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 20 October-8 November, 1959. Old Westbury Gardens, Westbury, Long Island, 150 Years of American Sculpture, 14 June-28 August, 1960

Lot Essay

After his near fatal car accident in 1939, Flannagan began to work primarily in bronze because of disabilites caused by the accident. Long Bird II was created during this period.

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