1940's Patinated Bronze Hounds on a Marble Base

Hand-carved marble capital fragment mounted on a wooden base. Base: 9.5" W x 7.5"D.

Absolutely chic pair of detailed, left and right, hand-cast, French, lead and zinc, recumbent greyhounds from the early 1900s. Exceptional patina.

Pair of midcentury, Italian, polished marble obelisks atop four, bronze spheres, and mounted on a stepped plinth.

A verdigris bronze model fragment of a standing horse after the original statue at the Acropolis. Mounted on a stepped marble plinth

Bronze sculpture on marble base, sitting man figure. France, 1940s.

Mr. Pattison was educated at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, Yale and the Yale School of Fine Arts. (B. 1916 - 1999) In 1939, he was granted Yale's first traveling fellowship, enabling him to study and work in China and Japan for 12 months. Mr. Pattison's many other prestigious prizes included the Logan, Eisendrath, and Pauline Palmer Awards from the Art Institute of Chicago. The Logan prize, awarded in 1942, was for a bronze titled "Kneeling Women." In 1951 Mr. Pattison placed first in the Metropolitan Museum's contemporary American sculpture show. Between 1940 and 1970 alone, Mr. Pattison had 10 one-man shows in Chicago. His work is on display in some of the world's most renowned museums, including the Art Institute; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Israeli State Museum in Jerusalem. His public commissions include installations for the Mayo Clinic...

Patinateed Brutalist "Unicorn Tragedy" bronze sculpture on marble base, circa 1970s. The piece depicts the tragedy of a young unicorn realizing his mother has been speared and is on ...

Contemporary American abstract sculpture made of patinated bronze, mounted on a square white marble base. (in the style of BRANCUSI).