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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
(American, 1880-1980)
Crest of the Wave, 1925
Estimate: $8,000-$12,000
Sold
$16,000
Live Auction
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Size
height: 22 in.
Description
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
(American, 1880-1980)
Crest of the Wave, 1925
bronze with green patina
inscribed and dated Harriet W. Frishmuth © 1925; also stamped GORHAM CO FOUNDERS / QFHL on base
height: 22 in.
Signature
inscribed and dated Harriet W. Frishmuth © 1925; also stamped GORHAM CO FOUNDERS / QFHL on base
Provenance
Provenance:Collection of Wallace “Wally” Barnes and Barbara Hackman Franklin, former United States Secretary of Commerce, Connecticut and Washington, DC.Acquired directly from the above, c. 2020.Private Collection, Connecticut.Literature:Janis Conner, Frank Hohmann, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, and Thayer Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, no. 1925:5, pp. 27, 48, 79-80, 85-86, 90-91, 97, 102-103, 277, (another cast illustrated) pp. 178-80, 250.