About the Artwork
The Spartan Mother
ca. 1918
Sherry Edmundson Fry (Artist) American, 1879-1966 Roman Bronze Works, N.Y. (Foundry) Founded 1899, active 19th-20th century
Bronze
Including base: 26 × 10 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (66 × 27.3 × 29.2 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund
77.60
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Markings
Signed, on side of pedestal: SHERRY FRY
Inscribed: Roman Bronze Works, New York
Provenance
by 1919, George G. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1919-1944, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1944, transferred to George G. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1944-1972, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
1972-1977, Graham Galleries (New York, New York, USA) purchased at Sotheby’s Auction, May 3, 1972, lot #140
1977-present, purchased by the Beatrice W. Rogers Fund for Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Cranbrook Collections. Sales cat., Sotheby, Parke-Bernet. New York, sale 3360, May 2-5, 1972, lot no. 40.
Bulletin of the DIA 56, 5 (1977): p. 269 (fig. 7).
Arts and Crafts in Detroit: 1906-1976. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, p. 94, no. 72 (ill.).
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Sherry Edmundson Fry; Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., The Spartan Mother, ca. 1918, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, 77.60.
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