An American Bronze: Laughing Waters. Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980). Cast by Gorham Co. Founders, Providenc...

Description

An American Bronze: Laughing Waters
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
Cast by Gorham Co. Founders, Providence, Rhode Island
Circa 1929
Bronze with brown patina, on a black marble plinth
Marks: lower back 1...©29 / Harriet W. Frishmuth / Gorham Co Founders QGOA
16.12 in. high
Entitled Laughing Waters, depicting a young woman balanced with one foot on rocks, one knee bent and her arms swinging to the right as she glances to the left, one hand clasping a fish; from an edition of forty
Literature: Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, Vantage Press, Inc., 1973, p. 183-185

Laughing Waters was posed by Desha and composed as a companion work for Crest of the Wave, which had been created three years prior.

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