By Edward McCartan
Located in Portland, OR
Antique American Bronze sculpture of Diana The Huntress with a Doe, by Edward Francis McCartan (1879-1947), New York circa 1920.
The Bronze depicting the Roman Goddess Diana, holding a staff with her right hand gently touch a deer, the bronze having a warm mellow patina and is raised upon a rectangular black marble plinth. The bronze is signed on the base "E. McCartan" and has a French foundry stamp with "Garantie De Bronze Paris".
Condition is excellent, this very elegant bronze is ready to grace your space.
McCartan was born in Albany, New York, he studied at the Pratt Institute, with Herbert Adams. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York with George Grey Barnard and Hermon Atkins MacNeil, and then in Paris for three years under Jean Antoine Injalbert before his return to the United States in 1910.
In 1914, McCartan became the Director of the sculpture department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City. Eleanor Mary Mellon was among those he taught during his career.
Posthumously he was honored by the National Sculpture Society, his public monuments were few—but the Eugene Field Memorial ("Winken, Blinken, and Nod") can still be found in the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.
McCartan's sculpture, The Nude, was stolen from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan and was discovered at the bottom of the Detroit River eight years later.
McCartan sculpted the 19th issue of the Society of...
Category
1920s Art Deco Oregon - Sculptures