William Rimmer

American, born England, 1816 - 1879

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American artist (1816-1879)

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William Rimmer, Joseph Ternbach, Dying Centaur, model 1869, cast 1967, bronze, Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1968.2.1

Dying Centaur

William Rimmer, Joseph Ternbach · model 1869, cast 1967 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1968.2.1

William Rimmer, Head of a Woman, c. 1859/1860, granite, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. H. Simonds), 2015.19.3628

Head of a Woman

William Rimmer · c. 1859/1860 · granite ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3628

Bibliography

1882

  • Bartlett, Truman H. The Art Life of William Rimmer: Sculptor, Painter, and Physician. Boston, 1882. Reprinted 1890, Boston and New York, and Cambridge. Reprinted, with slight corrections, 1970, New York.

1946

  • Kirstein, Lincoln. "Who Was Dr. Rimmer?" Town and Country xcviii (1946): 72-73.

  • Kirstein, Lincoln. William Rimmer: 1816-1879. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1946.

1981

  • Weidman, Jeffrey. William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1982.

1983

  • Weidman, Jeffrey. "William Rimmer: Creative Imagination and Daemonic Power." In The Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures: Museum Studies 10. Chicago, 1983.

1985

  • Weidman, Jeffrey. In William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo. Exh. cat. Brockton Art Museum, Massachusetts. Hanover, New Hampshire, 1985.

1996

  • Weidman, Jeffrey. "William Rimmer." In Dictionary of Art 1996, 26:401-402.

1997

  • Weidman, Jeffrey. "William Rimmer." In American Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume II: Works by Artists Born 1816-1847. New York, 1997: 196-205.

2000

  • Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 440.

2022

  • Evans, Dorinda. William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art. Cambridge, 2022.