One of the most successful American sculptors of the early twentieth century, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880 - 1980) is best known for her exuberant images of female nudes. Her work achieved tremendous popularity between the 1910s and the 1930s, coinciding with the height of interest in collecting bronze sculptures for the home and garden. Frishmuth's Joy of the Waters and The Vine - today her most recognizable and celebrated pieces - were during her lifetime among the most oft-replicated of American bronze sculptures, with editions numbering the hundreds.
The first comprehensive examination of the life and work of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Captured Motion is an authoritative study of a remarkable and prolific artist whose work,m has, until now, never been adequately recorded. The volume includes a detailed biography and overview of the artist's long career; it also contains essays on her association with her foundries, primarily Gorham Co. Founders, as well as a guide to assessing authenticity and quality in casts of her original models. Most important, Captured Motion provides a meticulously documented and fully illustrated catalog of the artist's entire corpus of work, with detailed entries for each of Frishmuth's 155 sculptures.
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