"Crest of the Wave" Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

Rare bronze "Crest of the Wave" (1925) Beaux Arts style nude sculpture by Harriet W. Frishmuth and produced by Gorham Co. Founders. Signed.

Early 20th century verdigris patinated bronze sculpture of a flying gull skimming the crest of a wave, mounted on a black marble base. original from the Art Deco period. You can use ...

A charming and totaling accurate (artist authorized) reproduction of perhaps Flannagan's most well-known sculpture. From the Whitney Museum of American Art and retains the original l...

Antique circa 1900 Wave Crest bowl with brass rim. The bowl is decorated beautifully with flowers. Manufactured by the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

One of the most joyous and charming sculptures we have ever offered, this large, unique sculpture of a young boy riding a seal through the waves is a superb example of a genre of Beaux Arts & Art Deco sculpture that featured children and animals at play. Edith Parsons' "Frog Baby...

This very rare and desirable antique Hubley 'Charleston Dancers' #270 cast-iron doorstop by Anne Harriet Fish (1890-1964) is a prize catch for collectors or those interested in start...

"Chinoise” Sculpture by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. This sculpture, a self portrait which stylistically mixes Art Nouveau and orientalism, is among her earliest successes. This piec...

A charming and totaling accurate (artist authorized) Whitney Museum of American Art 1940 cast stone reproduction of one of Flannagan's most well-known sculptures. Art Deco, W.P.A. st...

A charming and totaling accurate (artist authorized) Whitney Museum of American Art 1940 cast stone reproduction of one of Flannagan's most well-kno...

A charming bust of a child’s head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, dated 1910, the girl has her head slightly tilted forwards as she looks out from under a lock of hair, set on a square block signed on the reverse ‘E Whitney-Smith 1910’. This bronze is a reduction of Whitney-Smith’s original marble piece, a photograph of which survives in the V&A (object number AAD/1990/12/63). Another version can be seen in a 1920s photograph of the artist in his studio owned by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG x194201). Neither the identity of the sitter nor title of the work is known. Edwin Whitney-Smith (1880-1952) was one of the pre-eminent sculptors of his day. Born in Bristol in 1880, he became a student of William Harbutt, the headmaster of Bath School of Art, best remembered today for inventing plasticine. Whitney-Smith showed great promise from an early age, opening a studio in St John’s Wood, London, in 1910. He exhibited over 40 pieces at the Royal Academy and despite not achieving Academician status, even with list of illustrious proposers, he became a dear friend of Sir Alfred Munnings, the famous horse painter, and sculpted his portrait. He was, however, elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors and his works were generally well-received by critics and the general public alike. Aside from the RA, he exhibited in Bristol, at the Paris Salon and the Scottish Academy and his work attracted the attention of such important patrons as the Courtauld family. One of his most famous works, The Waking Child, is in the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and another, The Irishman, is in the Tate. One version of his bust of Ernest Bevin, the trade unionist, stands in Tooley Street in Bermondsey to this day. An article in The Sphere, published on the 3rd of May 1924, referred to the sculptor as “a well-known sculptor of smiling children” and mentioned his “famous babies’ heads”.