Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)

Play Days

Details

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
Play Days
inscribed 'HARRIET. W. FRISHMUTH ©' and stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
52 ½ in. (133.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, circa 1930.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 138-44, other examples 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. 38, 77, 174, 248, 253, no. 1924:3, other examples illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth is renowned for her graceful and lively figures perfectly translated into bronze. Play Days was inspired by the young dancer Madeline Parker. Desha Delteil, Frishmuth's friend and favorite model, introduced the artist to Parker, who suggested the pose of tickling a frog with her foot. Play Days won the Gold Medal at the Garden Club of America in 1928. Other casts of Play Days are in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; and the Frishmuth Gallery, Hundred Acres, Arcade, New York.

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