Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870-1952)

'Rising Sun'

Details

Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870-1952)
'Rising Sun'
inscribed '©/.A.A.WEINMAN.FECIT.' (on the base)--inscribed 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)
bronze greenish brown patina
26 in. (66 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Albany, New York, circa 1920s.

Literature

J. James, Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts, San Francisco, California, 1915, pp. 18-21, another example illustrated.
Brookgreen Gardens, Sculpture by Adolph Alexander Weinman, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1937, n.p.
The National Sculpture Society, New York, American Sculpture Series: Adolph A. Weinman, New York, 1950, pp. 16-19, 61, another example illustrated.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, p. 122.
Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1976, p. 115, no. 151, another example illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Rising Day and its companion work, Descending Night, were originally designed as fountain figures for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Surmounting enormous decorated columns, the pair of plaster figures were installed in the Court of the Universe, designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. The building and its courtyard, known as the "meeting place of the hemi-spheres," stood at the northern end of the fairgrounds between the Palace of Agriculture and the Palace of Transportation.
Following the exhibition, Weinman reproduced both works in two sizes, one measuring approximately 26 inches tall and the other approximately 57 inches tall.

Additional examples of Rising Day are in the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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