HENRY KIRKE BUSH-BROWN (AMERICAN, 1857-1935)

Well fashioned bronze sculpture depicting a baseball outfielder running to catch a fly ball. Uniformed player is shown wearing early small bill hat and high top cleats mounted on small plinth style with grass terrain detail. Signed on the base "H.K. Bush Brown Sculptor" along with "The Henry Bonnard Bronze Co., N.Y. 1886." Henry Kirke Bush-Brown was born in New York and studied at the NAD along with the Academie Julian in Paris. His works were displayed at the Paris Salon, the PAFA, the NAD, and the Columbian Exposition. In 1923, he opened the first school of sculpture in Washington, D.C. Superb all original condition with pleasing rich brown patination: EX-MT