Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1890-1980)

'Speed'

Details

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1890-1980)
'Speed'
inscribed 'Harriet W. Frishmuth' and stamped 'design patented 1922 © Gorham Co. Founders QBQB' (along the base)
silvered bronze
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

Literature

The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 22-23
Brookgreen Gardens, Sculpture by Harriet Frishmuth, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1937, illustration of another example
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 224

Lot Essay

Speed, designed as a hood ornament for automobiles, was cast in two sizes, of which the present model is the larger.

This work will be included in Leah Rosenblatt's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth.

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