Rising Sun, model by 1915, cast by 1946

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 144.78 × 135.89 × 43.18 cm (57 × 53 1/2 × 17 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.3801

Artists / Makers

Adolph Alexander Weinman (sculptor) American, born Germany, 1870 - 1952

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Inscription

on back of the base: © A. A. WEINMAN.FECIT; on back of base, bottom: AMER. ART FDRY N.Y.

Marks and Labels

FM: American Art Foundry

Provenance

The artist; acquired 1968 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] See correspondence in NGA curatorial files concerning the Corcoran's acquisition of this sculpture and the artist's Descending Night (NGA 2015.19.3800).

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Weinman, Adolph Alexander

Exhibition History

1946: Small Bronzes by American Sculptors, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1946 (continuing exhibition that opened 8 February 1930).

1979: The American Renaissance 1876-1917, Brooklyn Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Denver Art Museum, 13 October 1979 - 30 November 1980, no. 271, repro.

Bibliography

1940: Jackman, Rilla Evelyn. American Arts. New York, 1940: 428.