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MAHONRI MACKINTOSH YOUNG (1877-1957) Elephant Bookends 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, each (Modeled circa 1913; Cast circa 1915.) image 1
MAHONRI MACKINTOSH YOUNG (1877-1957) Elephant Bookends 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, each (Modeled circa 1913; Cast circa 1915.) image 2
MAHONRI MACKINTOSH YOUNG (1877-1957) Elephant Bookends 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, each (Modeled circa 1913; Cast circa 1915.) image 3
MAHONRI MACKINTOSH YOUNG (1877-1957) Elephant Bookends 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, each (Modeled circa 1913; Cast circa 1915.) image 4
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FLORIDA
Lot 83

MAHONRI MACKINTOSH YOUNG
(1877-1957)
Elephant Bookends 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, each

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MAHONRI MACKINTOSH YOUNG (1877-1957)

Elephant Bookends
inscribed 'YOUNG' (on the base) and stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'GORHAM CO, FOUNDERS / Q469 7' (along the base), each
bronze with brown patina, each
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, each
Modeled circa 1913; Cast circa 1915.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Montreal.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Bronze Division Papers: 3. Casting records of statuary and small bronzes owned by Gorham, Q Numbers Assigned to Bronzes, 1905-1970, New York, 1914, p. 22, no. Q469, another example listed. (as Book Ends Elephant)
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Bronze Division Papers: 5. Records of royalties paid to sculptors for casting their works, New York, 1915, n.p., no. 7. (as Book Ends Elephant)
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, pp. 186, 188, another example listed.

Among Mahonri Mackintosh Young's small bronzes, Elephant Bookends was one of the most commercially successful for the artist. Young's small bronzes were typically limited to editions of 15 and in some instances, fewer were cast. Gorham Company Founders cast a total of 108 pairs of Elephant Bookends between 1914 and 1948. (J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, p. 186) The present pair of Elephant Bookends cast circa 1915 by Gorham Company Founders are number 7 from this edition of 108.

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