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Gertrude Katherine Lathrop (American, 1896-1986)
A magnificent and large bronze of a Pekingese

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8 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
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Gertrude Katherine Lathrop (American, 1896-1986)
A magnificent and large bronze of a Pekingese

Patinated bronze, raised on a rectangular base inscribed 'G.K. LATHROP', 56.5cm wide, 31cm deep, 25cm high (22in wide, 12in deep, 9 1/2in high)

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Born in Albany, New York, Gertrude Lathrop came from a family of women artists with whom she shared a studio at home. Her mother, Ida, was a painter of landscapes and still lifes, and her sister, Dorothy, was primarily a writer and illustrator of children's books.

Lathrop studied with Gutzon Borglum at the Art Students League in New York City in 1918 and at his School of American Sculpture from 1920 to 1921. She spent the summer of 1924 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, studying with Charles Grafly. It is during her training that she found herself drawn to animal sculpture above all subjects. Of this, she wrote:

"I chose to model animals because of their infinite variety of form and texture and their great beauty, for even the lowliest of them have beauty, yes even the ward bug, with his magnificent tusks."

In 1921, at the National Academy of Design, Lathrop had her first exhibition, and in the following years her work was included in many shows of the National Sculpture Society. In 1954, she moved with her sister to Falls Village, Connecticut, where she died in 1986. Although she modelled portraits and was an accomplished medallist, her main interest was in sculpting animals.

Lathrop's work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Brookgreen Gardens; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; Albany Public Library; and Houston Public Library.

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