1880-1980 - Harriet Frishmuth is perhaps most well known for her sensitive rendering of lithe female forms in extended poses. Dancers were her favorite models. Her most important model was the noted dancer Desha, who was known among artists for her ability to hold difficult poses. She met Desha Delteil in 1916. Desha modeled for the majority of her most beautiful and famous works of the 1920's. The Vine was her first commercial success of any merit. This female nude was created in 1921. Subsequently an edition of over 300 was cast. Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) was an American sculptor known for her works in bronze.
Frishmuth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1880. She studied briefly with Rodin at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, for two years with Euchtriz in Berlin, and at the Art Students League of New York under Gutzon Borglum and Hermon Atkins MacNeil. While in New York she worked as an assistant to the sculptor Karl Bitter and performed dissections at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Frismuth's statue "Crest of the Wave", on display at the Marjore McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota.Her work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Salon in Paris, the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940) and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. One of her last exhibits was in New York City in 1929; although she remained active in the art world for decades afterwards, the Great Depression affected her livelihood and she closed her New York studio in the 1930s and returned to Philadelphia. She died in Connecticut in 1980, at the age of 99.
1880-1980 - Harriet Frishmuth is perhaps most well known for her sensitive rendering of lithe female forms in extended poses. Dancers were her favorite models. Her most important model was the noted dancer Desha, who was known among artists for her ability to hold difficult poses. She met Desha Delteil in 1916. Desha modeled for the majority of her most beautiful and famous works of the 1920's. The Vine was her first commercial success of any merit. This female nude was created in 1921. Subsequently an edition of over 300 was cast. Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) was an American sculptor known for her works in bronze.
Frishmuth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1880. She studied briefly with Rodin at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, for two years with Euchtriz in Berlin, and at the Art Students League of New York under Gutzon Borglum and Hermon Atkins MacNeil. While in New York she worked as an assistant to the sculptor Karl Bitter and performed dissections at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Frismuth's statue "Crest of the Wave", on display at the Marjore McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota.Her work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Salon in Paris, the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940) and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. One of her last exhibits was in New York City in 1929; although she remained active in the art world for decades afterwards, the Great Depression affected her livelihood and she closed her New York studio in the 1930s and returned to Philadelphia. She died in Connecticut in 1980, at the age of 99.
