Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons Figurative Sculptures

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

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...

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...