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Edward Francis McCartan(1879-1947)Dionysus (Boy and Panther Cub) 26 3/8in high on a 3in wooden base
18 May 2016, 14:00 EDT
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Edward Francis McCartan (1879-1947)
Dionysus (Boy and Panther Cub)
inscribed 'E. McCartan / 1925 No. 2' (on the base) and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina and traces of gilt
26 3/8in high on a 3in wooden base
Modeled in 1923.
inscribed 'E. McCartan / 1925 No. 2' (on the base) and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina and traces of gilt
26 3/8in high on a 3in wooden base
Modeled in 1923.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, Southern California.
Literature
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, vol. II, New York, 2001, p. 637.
As recorded in American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, Dionysus (Boy and Panther Cub) was originally modeled and cast in bronze in 1923, the present work being one among this edition. Later remodeled in 1936, the work was enlarged and cast in gilt-bronze for the Huntington Sculpture Garden at Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina (fig. 1). Other works by Edward McCartan can be found in public collections such as the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Boston, Massachusetts; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri.