An American Bronze: Crest of the Wave. Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980). Cast by Gorham Co. Founders, Provide...

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An American Bronze: Crest of the Wave
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
Cast by Gorham Co. Founders, Providence, Rhode Island
Circa 1929
Bronze with brown and vestiges of green patina, on a black marble plinth
Marks: lower back Harriet W. Frishmuth / ©1925 / Gorham Co Founders / QFHL
21 in. high
Entitled Crest of the Wave, depicting a young woman balanced with one foot on the crest of a wave amid fish, one knee slightly bent and her right arm stretching toward the sky as she glances down and to the left; from an edition of two hundred
Literature: Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, Vantage Press, Inc., 1973, p. 158-161

Crest of the Wave was posed by Desha and originally created as a large scale fountain commissioned for a private garden.

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