Julian Alden Weir, 1880

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 57.15 × 25.4 × 27.94 cm (22 1/2 × 10 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ferargil Galleries)

Accession Number

2015.19.3632

Artists / Makers

Olin Levi Warner (sculptor) American, 1844 - 1896

Image Use

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Inscription

on back: J. Alden Weir / L. Warner / 1880; on lower rear edge of base: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-

Marks and Labels

FM: Roman Bronze Works

Provenance

(Ferargil Galleries, New York);[1] gift 1925 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] According to a note to the file from Corcoran curator Dorothy Phillips, 20 June 1967 (in NGA curatorial files), this bust is possibly the cast that Weir sent as a gift to John Singer Sargent in 1904; see Dorothy Weir Young, The Life and Letters of J. Alden Weir, New Haven, 1960: 206.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Ferargil Galleries

Exhibition History

1974: Nineteenth Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 3 March - 26 May 1974, unpublished checklist.

1975: A Century and a Half of American Art, National Academy of Design, New York, 10 October - 16 November 1975, repro.

1976: 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1 March - 26 September 1976.

1990: Albert Pinkham Ryder, National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; Brooklyn Museum, 6 April 1990 - 8 January 1991, fig. 12.

Bibliography

1989: Broun, Elizabeth. Albert Pinkham Ryder. Exh. cat. National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1989: 21.

1990: Fink, Lois Marie. American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons. Washington and Cambridge, England, 1990: 246.

1994: Craven, Wayne. American Art: History and Culture. New York, 1994: 383.