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Herbert Haseltine"Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady)" Herbert Haseltine, Pig, Farm Animal1925
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Herbert Haseltine
Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady), 1925
Polished bronze with opaque ochre patina
4 ⅛ x 8 ⅛ x 3 ⅝ inches
Period speckled Belgian marble base: 1 ½ x 7 x 3 inches
Overall height: 5 ⅝ inches
This bronze statuette of a Middle White sow is part of Haseltine’s series of twenty British Champion animals, his major body of work in the 1920s. This pig is “Wharfedale Royal Lady,” bred by and the property of Leopold C. Paget, Esq., of Middlethorpe Hall in York. This sow was the first and breed Champion at the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1921 and 1923 and won the first and Champion prizes at the Yorkshire show in 1923. In 1921, Haseltine began a series, The Champion Domestic Animals of Great Britain, from agricultural shows across Great Britain, using the animals themselves as models. The series included draft horses, a hunting horse, a polo pony, sheep, cattle, and pigs.
Haseltine was born to American parents, but grew up and studied in Europe, adopting the naturalism of the French animalier sculptors in his early years. However, through study of Egyptian sculptures at the Louvre, Haseltine took on the stylization and rich surface decoration of the sphinxes and other animal sculpture, which can be seen in the British Champion Animals series. The idealization and stylization of this series, based on the ancient sculptures of which Haseltine was so
fond, was a popular approach to sculpture in the 1920s. Simplifying the models to their “significant forms” was part of a modern rebirth of sculpture in this period of Art Deco, but Haseltine was partial to the magnificence of history and aimed to strike a harmonious balance between realism and the ideal form.
Haseltine completed his model of the Middle White Boar: Wharfedale Deliverance, but was so struck by the “beauty – beauty from the sculptural point of view” of Deliverance’s daughter, “Wharfedale Royal Lady,” that he stayed to model her as well – his last in the series. Both Middle White models share a turned-up nose, straight back, and blocked vision due to their rolls of fat. Haseltine described his model as “so flamboyantly pregnant that she could hardly waddle, and therefore made an excellent model. To her also I gave lumps of sugar and although she could not see me, I am sure she would have given me the glad eye, if she had only had the chance.” He reported that the next day, she had seventeen piglets.
- Creator:Herbert Haseltine (1877 - 1962, American, French, Italian)
- Creation Year:1925
- Dimensions:Height: 8.125 in (20.64 cm)Width: 4.5 in (11.43 cm)Depth: 3.625 in (9.21 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841215211832
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