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'Crest of the Wave'
Details
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
'Crest of the Wave'
inscribed 'HARRIET W FRISHMUTH © 1925' (on the base)--stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QFHL' (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high on a marble base ½ in. (1.2 cm.) high
'Crest of the Wave'
inscribed 'HARRIET W FRISHMUTH © 1925' (on the base)--stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QFHL' (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high on a marble base ½ in. (1.2 cm.) high
Provenance
The Gorham Company, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1929.
By descent to the present owner.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1929.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
The Gorham Company, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 12-13, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles and F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 178-79, 250, no. 1925:5, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles and F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 178-79, 250, no. 1925:5, another example illustrated.
Exhibited
(Possibly) New York, The Gorham Company, Famous Small Bronzes: a Representative Exhibit Selected from the Works of Noted Contemporary Sculptors, May 1929.