About the Artwork
Allegresse
1921
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
1872-1955
American
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 25 11/16 × 23 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (65.2 × 60 × 29.8 cm) Overall (pedestal): 56 3/4 × 29 × 18 1/4 inches (144.1 × 73.7 × 46.4 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase
21.23
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Markings
Signed: Bessie Potter Vonnoh
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Provenance
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition of American Sculpture. Exh. cat., National Sculpture Society. New York, 1923, p. 241.
Contemporary American Sculpture. Exh. cat., National Sculpture Society. New York, 1929, p. 322.
Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1969, p. 50.
Arts and Crafts in Detroit: 1906-1976. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, p. 104, no. 96.
American Women Artists 1830-1930. Exh. cat., The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, D.C., 1987, no. 121 (ill.).
Connor, Janis and Joel Rosenkranz. Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939. Austin, 1989, pp. 165, 167.
Rubenstein, C.S. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston, 1990, p. 113.
Crane, Michael. Detroit's Annual Exhibition of American Art: The Foundation of a Collection. www.dia.org/research/online_publications/annual_american_art, 2005.
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Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Allegresse, 1921, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.23.
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