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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

Artist/Maker
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
(American, 1880 - 1980)
Title
Desha
Date
1927
Material & Process
Bronze
Dimensions
with base: 14 5/8 x 7 x 7 3/4 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Alice C. Evans
Inventory No.
64.4.1
Classification
Sculpture
Location
United States

Related

1931, acquired by the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.); 1942, sold to Miss Alice C. Evans (Washington, D.C.); April 1964, gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Ahrens, Kent. "Small Bronzes by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth." Athens, OH: Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, 2001. pp. 9, 71, no. 23
  • Frishmuth, Harriet Whitney, et al. "Captured Motion : the Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, a Catalogue of Works." New York: Hohmann Holdings LLC, 2006. pp. 184-185

  • Small Bronzes by Two Sculptors: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth & Paul Howard Manship: Minnesota Museum of American Art, 12/15/2001–2/10/2002
  • Small Bronzes by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: Kennedy Museum of Art, 9/8/2001–2/15/2002

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