The Bear Tamer
n.d.
Sculptor, American, 1865 - 1925
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 68.58 × 46.36 × 33.02 cm (27 × 18 1/4 × 13 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.3698
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist's widow, Mrs.Paul Wayland Bartlett [1861-1954], Paris and Washington; gift 1944 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1943
Memorial Exhibition of the Sculptures by the late Paul Wayland Bartlett, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 November 1943 - 3 January 1944, no catalogue.
2009
American Bronzes from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 29 April 2009 - 2013, no catalogue.
2013
American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1889
Child, Theodore. "American Artists at the Paris Exhibition." Harper's New Monthly Magazine (September 1983).
1943
Mechlin, Leila. "Art Notes: Bartlett Exhibition at Corcoran Gallery." The Sunday Star (21 November 1943): C6.
1968
McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Famous Sculptors of America. New York, 1968: 151-152.
1973
Getlein, Frank. The Lure of the Great West. Waukesha, WI, 1973: 336, 339.
1975
Cooper, Jeremy. Nineteenth Century Romantic Bronzes. Boston, 1975: 118, pl. 117.
1979
Brown, Milton W., Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Naomi Rosenblum, and David M. Sokol. American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, and Photography. New York, 1979: 322, pl. 343.
1992
Somma, Thomas P. "The Myth of Bohemia and the Savage Other: Paul Wayland Bartlett's Bear Tamer and Indian Ghost Dancer." American Art 6, no. 3 (Summer 1992).
1994
Craven, Wayne. American Art: History and Culture. New York, 1994: 384.
2023
Glinsman, Lisha Deming, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman. "When the Workshop is Fluid: Observations on Parisian Bronze Casting in the Early Twentieth Century." Daphne Barbour, ed., Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 6 (2023): 178 fig. 23, 179 fig. 24 (detail).
Inscriptions
on top of the base: Paul W Bartlett.; on the side of the base: FONDERIE / COOPERATIVE / DES ARTISTES.PARIS.
Wikidata ID
Q63864316