Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)

'Speed'

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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
'Speed'
inscribed 'HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH DESIGN PATENTED 1921' and stamped 'GORHAM CO FOUNDERS' (along the base)
bronze with silver patina
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high on a marble base 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

June Greenwald, Cleveland, Ohio.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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, another example illustrated.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 224.
J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles and F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, p. 251, another example illustrated.

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

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