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Charles Cary RumseyThe Old Virginian, Bronze of a Horse and Rider with Dogs by Charles Rumsey1917
1917
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From the estate of the Artist Charles Cary Rumsey
The Artist, Charles Rumsey, was a child prodigy sent to Paris as a young boy to study sculpture. He later was a world class sportsmen including being an 8 goal polo player with Meadow Brook Polo Club Long Island NY. His knowledge of all animals from Horses to Dogs and other wildlife gave him the ability to sculpt them as we see them, perfectly depicted. He did heroic size sculptures that remain in Public Spaces such as the large frieze above the Manhattan Bridge in NYC as well as the famous Smithtown Bull in Smithtown Long Island. He has been exhibited, and included in the permanent collection of the most important Museums worldwide.
Illustrated in catalogue page 42 illustration no. 42
Exhibited in the Metrolpolitan Museum of Art NYC
Exhibited Boston Museum of Fine Art
Exhibited Beaux Arts Center Paris France
- Creator:Charles Cary Rumsey (1879 - 1922, American)
- Creation Year:1917
- Dimensions:Height: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)Width: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Depth: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Brookville, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1635214073212
Charles Cary Rumsey
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age as he was considered a prodigy his parent sent him to Paris to study art in 1893. Graduated Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Rumsey was a superb rider and a world-class polo player. His large monuments remain in locations around the world. Beaux Arts Museum Paris France Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nassau County Museum of Art, Nassau Co.NY
Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey
Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Pan American Exposition Buffalo 1901
National Sculpture Society Exhibition under the Auspices of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore,
Fifth Regiment Armory Baltimore, 1908
Architectural League of NY 24th Exhibition 1909 Architectural League of NY 27th Exhibition 1912
MacBeth Galleries NY “A Collection of Small Bronzes by American Sculptors” 1912
1913 Armory Show, NY, Art Institute of Chicago 1913
National Sculpture Society 1913
Kingore Gallery Exhibition NY 1913
Architectural league of NY 28th Exhibition
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo NY “An exhibition of works by Buffalo Artists” 1914
Panama Pacific International exhibition, San Francisco, California 1915
Fine Arts Institute , Kansas City Missouri 1916
Sculptors Gallery, “Exhibition of sculptures by Charles Cary Rumsey” Art Association of Indianapolis Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1918
American Painting and Sculpture, Pertaining to the War” Knoedlers, NY 1918-1919
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1919
Art Institute of Chicago 1920
Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, 1921
Carnegie Institute Exhibition Architectural league of NY 28th Annual Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1923
National Sculpture Society, NY 1923
Exposition Retrospective de L’ourvre “Charles Cary Rumsey” Societe’ Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1927
Brooklyn Museum NY 1930
Whitney Museum of Art NY 1932
American Sculpture and Paintings, Museum of Modern Art NY 1932-1933
Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933
The Centennial Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1936
Three Centuries of American Art, Organized by the Museum of Modern Art NY Muse’ du Jeu de Paume, Paris 1938
Sport in Art, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo NY 1948
A Survey of American Sculpture, late 18th century to 1962, Newark Museum of Art New Jersey. 1962
National Art Museum of Sport Premier Exhibition, Madison Square Garden Center, NY 1968
Horse in America, Monmouth Museum, Red Bank New Jersey 1970
American Art in the Newark Museum, 1981
Dog Museum of America, NY 1983
The Shock of Modernism in America Nassau County Museum of Art 1984
Sporting Art, Anderson Galleries, NY 1986
Sporting Art, Anderson Galleries NY, 1988
Polo in America, American Cup Polo Tournament, Meadowbrook Polo Club NY
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