Charles Cary Rumsey Bronze 'Horse & Man Drinking Water' Sculpture

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Charles Cary Rumsey
Charles Cary Rumsey Bronze 'Horse & Man Drinking Water' Sculpture

Name: Charles Cary Rumsey Bronze 'Horse & Man Drinking Water' Sculpture
Brand: Charles Cary Rumsey
Price: 9500 USD

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By the esteemed equine sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey (1879-1922) Sz:8"L x 5.75"H x 3.5"W Stamped: M.H.R. (Mary Harriman Rumsey) Roman Bronze Works of Long Island Ltd Edition (#4 of 11) over Plaster Cast Charles Cary Rumsey (August 29, 1879 – September 21, 1922) was an American sculptor and an eight-goal polo player. Early life Rumsey was born on August 29, 1879 in Buffalo, New York. He was the son of Laurence Dana Rumsey, a successful local businessman, and Jennie (née Cary) Rumsey. His siblings included Evelyn Rumsey, who married Rev. Walter R. Lord in 1922; Gertrude Rumsey, who married Carlton Smith; Grace Rumsey, who married Charles W. Goodyear Jr. (son of Charles W. Goodyear) in 1908; and Laurence Dana Rumsey Jr. His maternal uncles included Seward Cary, a sculptor, and George Cary, a prominent architect. His maternal great-grandfather was Trumbull Cary, a New York State Senator and former New York State Bank Commissioner. As a child, Charles learned to play polo at a young age from his uncle and friend, Devereux Millburn. Charles Rumsey, who was known to his family & friends as Pad, graduated from Harvard University and studied art at the Boston Art School before going to Paris, France, in 1902 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts, where his uncle, George Cary, studied from 1886 until 1889. While still a student at Harvard, he exhibited a sculpture of an Indian at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. He worked mainly in bronze. His passion for horses saw him create statues of the Thoroughbred horses Hamburg and Burgomaster for Harry Payne Whitney, Good and Plenty for Thomas Hitchcock, and World Champion trotter Nancy Hanks for John E. Madden. When Rumsey returned from Paris in 1906, he established himself in an art studio on 59th Street in New York City. He soon thereafter began sculptures for the massive house being built by architects Carrère and Hastings for the railroad magnate E.H. Harriman, called Arden; he did a fireplace surround and other sculptural decorations for the music room there, as well as the "Three Graces Fountain." During this time he courted Harriman's daughter, Mary Harriman; they both shared a love of horses and had first met at the Meadow Brook Steeplechase Association races on Long Island. They married in 1910, much to the surprise of New York society. They maintained a home in Brookville, New York on Long Island, where they raised three children. Among Rumsey's other works, he did a statue of Francisco Pizarro erected in Trujillo, Spain, the Brownsville War Memorial in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a copy of the "Three Graces Fountain" from Arden House installed in Mirror Lake at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo (where Rumsey is buried), and the controversial figure of a nude woman called "The Pagan." Perhaps his most celebrated work is the 1916 frieze on Carrère and Hastings' Manhattan Bridge in New York City, titled "Buffalo Hunt." Service in World War I During World War I, Charles Rumsey served as a captain with Headquarters Troop, 77th Infantry Division and Fortieth Engineers, United States Army Corps of Engineers. His brother, Laurence Dana Rumsey, Jr. (1885–1967), was a pilot in the War with the famous Lafayette Escadrille and Lafayette Flying Corps. Personal life In 1910, Rumsey married Mary Harriman (1881–1934), the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the City of New York of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. Mary was the daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman and sister to W. Averell Harriman, former New York state governor and United States diplomat. In 2015 she was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Together they had three children: Charles Cary Rumsey, Jr. (1911–2007), Mary Averell Rumsey (b. 1913), who made her debut in 1932 at a party with over 1,100 guests. Bronson Harriman Rumsey (1917–1939), who died when the plane he was riding in, along with Daniel S. Roosevelt (1917–1939) (the son of Hall Roosevelt and nephew of Eleanor Roosevelt), hit a mountain slope near Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla, Mexico. On September 21, 1922, Charles Rumsey was a passenger in an automobile that crashed into a stone bridge abutment on the Jericho Turnpike near Floral Park on Long Island. He was thrown from the vehicle and died minutes later from his injuries. Rumsey was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. He was posthumously inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in 2011.

Creator:
Charles Cary Rumsey (1879 - 1922, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 5.75 in (14.61 cm)Width: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)Depth: 8 in (20.32 cm)
Medium:
Bronze,Plaster
Period:
1910-1919
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Bristol, CT
Reference Number:
Seller: 298311stDibs: LU126015721312

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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