Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons Furniture

EDITH BARETTO PARSONS United States, 1878-1956 "Turtle Baby" (1919) - Designed as a Fountain Patinated bronze signed to edge "E.B. PARSONS COPYRIGHT...

DESCRIPTION Bronze with brown patina 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches 6 x 7 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches Signed Kunst Foundry, NY PROVENANCE Private collection, New York

A very fine model of a Running Terrier from Edith Barretto Parsons' rather rare series of bookends capturing this playful creature in a variety of activities, it is a subject that wa...

A very fine model of a Terrier from Edith Barretto Parsons' rather rare series of bookends capturing this playful creature in a variety of activities, it is a subject that was cast e...

Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons (1878 Houston, Virginia – 1956 New Canaan, Connecticut) was an American sculptor. Born in Houston, Texas in 1878, Edith Barretto Parsons was a pupil at the Art Students League of New York under Daniel Chester French, J. Twachtmann and George Grey Bernard. She lived and worked in New York, where she died in 1956. She was a member of the National Sculpture Society and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Her work "Duck Girl" is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was commissioned for numerous important public works including a memorial fountain to John Galloway (Public Park, Memphis, TN), the pediment figures for the main entrance of the Liberal Arts Building of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, MO 1904), a memorial monument (Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn) and a monument to "Soldiers of World War" (Summit, NJ). Much of her work was cast by Gorham Founders in New York, including a series of several terriers and other dogs, The Baby Goat, Baby Pan, The Big Duck and others. Magnificent beautiful solid heavy pair of original signed bronze sculptures of terriers dog can be used as pair of book end statue A fine and rare pair of Edith Parsons’ bronze...

Two bronze bookends featuring two children playing by Edith Barretto Parsons, marked with copyright 1913, produced by the Gorham Co foundry. / BIO: Edith Barretto Stevens, grandmother of Serena Pelissier, was born in Halifax, Virginia, in 1878, as her parents were residing there at the time. She died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1956. When she was six years old the family moved from Virginia to New Jersey. She said that the move inspired her to become an artist: the Virginia property had been so beautiful, and she found the fiercely structured garden in New Jersey so ugly, that she decided to create work that celebrated the beauty of untouched nature. Her figures are pure in their natural state, with no added man-made ornamentation or sentimentality. In her best known figures of small children and animals, we can detect a connection, very subtly rendered, between the animals and the children: the Duck Baby’s hair, for example, flies out at the side, resembling little wings; the Baby Pan has tiny “horns” hidden in the curls on his forehead. There is that hint at connection to be found in each of them. She studied from the age of 15 at the Art Students’ League in New York City, with, among others, Daniel Chester French, George L. Barnard and John Twachtman, and she worked as apprentice to James Earle Fraser. In 1903, at the age of 25, she was appointed to design the pediment of the main entrance to the Liberal Arts Building at the St. Louis fair. In 1908 she married Howard Parsons, one of the many direct descendants of Charles Willson Peale and the slightly fewer descendants of Rembrandt Peale...

Edith Parsons (1878-1956) terrier bronze sculpture, circa 1930s A playful terrier in bronze by listed American artist Edith Parsons. Dimensions: 7" wide x 3" deep at the base x 7" high. Very good condition. Born in Halifax, Virginia, Edith Parsons studied at the Art Students League in New York with John Twachtman...

A fine and rare pair of Edith Parsons’ bronze sculptures of “Terriers” from her rather rare series of bookends capturing this playful creature in a vari...

A sensational and most charming American turn of the century patinated bronze statue of 'Duck Baby', signed Edith Barretto Parsons EGF I C. The bronze is raised by a hexagonal mottled base where the adorable baby stands...

A precious rendition of childhood executed by Edith Parsons and cast by the Gorham Co. foundry in New York, this exquisite little work captures a young child with his hand outstretch...

A pair of young ducks bookends (running and eating). Very rare model. Lost Wax Foundry method. Each signed "E·B· PARSONS " and stamped "Kunst Foundry NY," in the bases. Bronze with brown original patina. Condition: Wear and minor losses to the patina. Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons (1878 Houston, Virginia -1956 New Canaan, Connecticut) was an American sculptor. She studied with Daniel Chester French, and at the Art Students League of New York, where she won a sculpture prize and scholarships. She apprenticed with James Earle Fraser. She sculpted figures for the 1902 St. Louis Exposition's Liberal Arts Building, and in 1908 showed her sculpture Earth Mother at the National Academy of Design. That same year, she married Howard Crosby Parsons, and built a studio on the top floor of their home. Her work changed its subject matter as her own children were born and posed for her sculptures, often holding ducks, turtles, and other creatures. Duck Baby, beginning a series of garden sculptures for which she is best known today, was the popular hit of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. The exposition handbook stated: "In the presence of so much that is weighty and powerful, the popularity of Duck Baby is a significant and touching indication of the world's hunger for what is cheerful and mirth-provoking." The same may be said of Turtle Baby and Frog Baby...

A fine example of ‘children playing’ garden bronzes that have charmed collectors since the late 19th century . Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons ( 1878-1956) created some of the best casts along with other important female sculptors of her time, such as Anna Huntington or Harriet Frishmuth...