LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

sculpture; base height 12.1 cm

Markings:

inscribed Niki-Eiphnh; also inscribed A.Saint.Gaudens M.C.M.V. with the Gorham Co. Founders foundry mark

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mutual Assurance Company and Independence National Historic Park, Second Bank of the United States, . Framing the Board: A Look at Corporate Portraiture , October 1982-January 1983, no. 7

Literature:

Lloyd Goodrich,. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work , New York, 1933, no. 139, p. 173. Anthony N.B. Garvan and Carol A. Wojowicz,. Catalogue of the Green Tree Collection , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977, p. 63, illustrated p. 64. Lloyd Goodrich, . Thomas Eakins , Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, vol. 1, p. 201. Elizabeth John,. Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life , Princeton, New Jersey, 1983, p. 151. William Innes Homer, . Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art , New York, 1992, p. 108

Provenance:

The Mutual Assurance Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (commissioned from the artist). Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Alexander Gallery, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008