HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
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PROPERTY FROM THE PHILLIPS FAMILY COLLECTION
HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)

The Vine

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HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)
The Vine
inscribed '©/1921/HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH' and stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS/QBWS' (along the base)
bronze with light green and brown patina
11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high on a 1 in. (2.54 cm.) base
Modeled in 1921; cast by 1966.
Provenance
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York.
Lee E. Phillips, Jr., Wichita, Kansas, acquired from the above, 1948.
By descent to the late owner.
Literature
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, p. 101, another example illustrated.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968, p. 226, another example referenced.
A. Schmavonian, ed., “Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, American Sculptor,” The Courier, vol. IX, no. 1, October 1971, pp. 26-27.
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 43-46, 87, 127, 200, 202, 208, other examples illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 38-39, another example illustrated.
Eaton Fine Art, Inc., From Neo-Classical and Beaux-Arts to Modernism: A Passage in American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2000, pp. 44-45, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles, F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 31, 33, 46, 58-59, 79, 102, 107n10, 150-51, 176, 240, 277, no. 1921:1, other examples illustrated.

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Lot Essay

One of Frishmuth's most commercially successful models, The Vine was awarded the Shaw Memorial Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1923. Desha, the artist's most frequently used model, and Renee Wilde, another dancer and model of Frishmuth's, posed for the work.

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