Triumph of the Egg, II, 1941

  • John Bernard Flannagan, American, 1898-1942

Granite

  • Overall: 4 1/2 × 9 × 5 1/8 inches (11.4 × 22.9 × 13 cm)

Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.251

Department

American Art before 1950

Inscribed, on bottom: JB - 41

1941-possibly 1942, Buchholz Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

possibly 1942-1965, John S. Newberry

1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Letters of John B. Flannagan. New York, 1941, p. 88, no. 72. Sculpture of John B. Flannagan. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1942, p. 39, no. 39 (ill.). American Birds and their Painters and Sculptors. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1945, p. 6 (ill.). Origins of Modern Sculpture. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1946, p. 8, no. 112. Maillard, Robert. Dictionary of Modern Sculpture. New York, 1960, p. 96. North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 9, 3-4 (March 1970): p. 17 (fig. 4).

John Bernard Flannagan, Triumph of the Egg, II, 1941, granite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.251.