The Sun Vow
MacNeil, Hermon Atkins
1866, Everett, Massachusetts - 1947, New York
The Sun Vow, c. 1898-1899
Inscribed: " H.A. MacNeil Sc.", Titled "The Sun Vow"
and with the Roman Bronze Works N- Y- foundry mark
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Bronze, brown patina
100 x 80 x 55 cm
DEC1998.3
Artwork history
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CIapp & Graham Co., New York
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Estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (sold: Sotheby´s Parke Bernet, New York, October 31, 1975, lot 110, illustrated)
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Sotheby´s Auctions, New York, Lot 199, December 1998.
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Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection.
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-Taft, L.: The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1903, pp. 443-44, illustration of another example p. 441, fig. 73.
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-Holmes Dodd, L.: The Golden Age of American Sculpiure, Boston, Massachusetts, 1936, p. 90, illustration of another example.
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-TenEyck Gardner, A.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Sculpiure, New York, 1965, p. 96, iUustration of another example.
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-Craven, W.: Sculpiure in America, New York, 1968, p. 518, illustration of another example fig. 14.1.
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-Broder, P.J.: Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 88-9, illustrations of other examples pls. 81-82.