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Charles Schreyvogel(1861-1912)The Last Drop 12 x 18 x 4 7/8in
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Charles Schreyvogel (1861-1912)
The Last Drop
inscribed 'Copyrighted 1903 by Chas Schreyvogel', stamped with foundry mark 'Roman Bronze Works NY' and numbered '#151' (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
12 x 18 x 4 7/8in
Cast in 1932
inscribed 'Copyrighted 1903 by Chas Schreyvogel', stamped with foundry mark 'Roman Bronze Works NY' and numbered '#151' (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
12 x 18 x 4 7/8in
Cast in 1932
Footnotes
Provenance
Louise S. Feldman, Brooklyn, New York, commissioned of Roman Bronze Works.
Property from the George Gund III Trust, San Francisco, California.
Literature
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Roman Bronze Works Archive, 1928–1930 ledger, job no. 848, p. 78.
Harold McCracken, Great Painters and Illustrators of the Old West, New York, 1952, p. 202.
Ed Ainsworth, The Cowboy in Art, New York, 1968, pp. 48-49, another example illustrated.
James D. Horan, The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian of the Indian-Fighting Army of the American West, New York, 1969, p. 27, pl. 39, another example illustrated.
Paul A. Rossi and David C. Hunt, The Art of the Old West, New York, 1971, p. 230, another example illustrated.
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pls. 205-206, pp. 203-204, another example illustrated.
Harold McCracken, The West of Buffalo Bill: Frontier Art, Indian Crafts, Memorabilia from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, New York, 1974, p. 196.
William C. Foxley, Frontier Spirit: Catalog of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado, 1983, p. 110, no. 76, another example illustrated.
Gary A. Reynolds, American Bronze Sculpture: 1850 to the Present, Newark, New Jersey, 1984, p. 23.
Suzan Campbell, The American West: People, Places, and Ideas, Corning, New York, 2001, n.p., pl. 62, another example illustrated.
Lucy D. Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, New York, 2002, p. 138.
We wish to thank Jonathan Frembling, Archivist and Reference Services Manager for the Roman Bronze Works Archives at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art for his kind assistance with cataloging the lot.
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