biografia di Harriet Whitney FRISHMUTH (1880-1980)

Birth place: Philadelphia, PA

Death place: Waterbury, CT

Addresses: Phila.; Lake Pleasant, NY; Southbury, CT

Profession: Sculptor, medalist

Studied: with Rodin; Acad. Colarossi with Injalbert and Gauquié ; also with Cuno Von Enchtritz, Berlin, Germany; ASL, with Borglum & H. McNeil.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1903; Arch. Lg.; PAFA, 1908-15, 1920-30, 1939; AIC, 6 annuals, 1912-25; NAWA,1921 (prize), 1924 (Joan of Arc Silver Medal); Pan.-Pacific Expo, 1915; NAD, 20 annuals, 1908-49 (gold medal, 1922; prize, 1923); Allied AA, 1925 (medal); Am. Garden Club, Phila., 1928 (gold); Grand Central AG, 1928 (prize); Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (gold medal); Council Am. Artists Soc. (first recipient award); Moore College Art & Design, Phila., 1998 (retrospective, The Philadelphia Ten.")"

Member: ANA, 1925; NA, 1929; NSS, 1914; NAWA, 1914; Ten Phila. Painters; Allied Artists Am.; Lg. Am. Artists; NY Municipal AS; AFA; Nat. Inst. Social Sciences; Arch. Lg.; NAC.

Work: Detroit IA; Dallas AA; MFA, Houston; John Herron AI; LACMA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Mem. Art Gal., Rochester, NY; Currier Gal., Manchester, NH; Slavonic Dance", also "The Vine," MMA; "Play Days," Dallas MFA. Commissions: Fountain, "Joy of the Waters," Dayton (OH) MFA; mem. sundial, Englewood, NJ; Morton Mem., Windsorville, CT; marble portrait bust of Woodrow Wilson, Capitol, Richmond, VA; fountain, Crest of the Wave, Botanical Gardens, St. Paul."

Comments: She moved to Switzerland at an early age, and began studying sculpture in Paris at 19. She continued her studies in the U.S. and from 1913-37 created works in a converted stable in Sniffin Court, NYC. Renowned for bronzes of the female form interpreted as a free spirit."

Sources: WW73; WW47; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Art by American Women: ...the Collection of L.and A. Sellars, 137; Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 195 (w/repro.); Talbott and Sidney, The Philadelphia Ten; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add'l info. courtesy of Peter Bissell, Cooperstown, NY."