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"Marion Jones Farquhar" Frederick William Macmonnies, Tennis Olympian Portrait
By Frederick William MacMonnies
Located in New York, NY
Frederick William Macmonnies
Marion Jones Farquhar, 1905-11
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Provenance:
William Clerk
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Mary Smart, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, no. 90.
The work depicts Marion Jones Farquhar who, was an American tennis player who competed during the late 19th century and early 20th century. She won the singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S championships and was the first American woman to medal at the Olympics placing Bronze in singles. Additionally, she was the artist's sister-in-law who often played and competed with MacMonnies in golf and tennis. MacMonnies would often study the movements of her form referenced in his sculpture. When MacMonnies won a doubles golf tournament he said "Marion dragged my dead weight thro' and won us the tournament, showing what great Generalship can do."
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies had fame in the United States and Europe in the later half of the 19th century and early 20th century. He occasionally returned to America but lived most of his life as in expatriate in France. He was especially known for his lithe bronze figures, especially ones titled Diana. The classical names of these figures allowed him the appearance of propriety but gave him the opportunity to model svelte nudes.
Frederick MacMonnies was one of the first American sculptors to recognize the potential market of the middle class. He copyrighted his works and then contracted with foundries to mass produce some of his figures such as Diana in smaller sizes.
MacMonnies was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was a child prodigy at carving stone. At age 18, he worked in the studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and then persuaded him to become his assistant, keeping models damp and covered, running errands, and cleaning the studio. Evenings he studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design.
In Saint-Gaudens' studio, he met many of the wealthy people who shared Saint-Gaudens Beaux-Arts based ideas that art and architecture should be unified in order to create public art in America equal to that of classical antiquity or Renaissance Europe. Among the men that MacMonnies met through Saint-Gaudens who later furthered his career were architects Stanford White and Charles McKim...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Frederick William MacMonnies Art
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Pan of Rohallion, 1889-90 classical bronze sculpture
By Frederick William MacMonnies
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frederick W. MacMonnies (American, 1863-1937)
Pan of Rohallion, 1889-90 (Garden 22)
Bronze
Signed on base, 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS NY' at base
14.25 x 4 x 6 inches
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies...
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1880s Frederick William MacMonnies Art
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Diana the Huntress, 1890 classical bronze sculpture
By Frederick William MacMonnies
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frederick William MacMonnies (American, 1863-1937)
Diana, 1890
Bronze with green verdigris patina
Signed and dated
Copyright 1894 with Jaboeuf & Rouard, Paris foundry mark
31 x 21 x 17 inches
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies...
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1890s Frederick William MacMonnies Art
Materials
Bronze
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