Mother and Child (Mother and Babe)
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, American, 1872 - 1955
1902
Bronze
Cast no. 7
Overall: 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (27.3 x 19 x 24.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
S.964.57
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Classification
Sculpture
On view
Inscription
Signed and dated, on back: Bessie Potter Vonnoh, No. VII, 1902; on back: Copyright Roman Bronze Works, N.Y.
Exhibition History
New England Women, As Artist, As Subjects-1820-1920, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, November 18-December 11, 1987.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
Gifts of the Class of 1937, Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 11, 1973.
American Viewpoints: Painting and Sculpture from the Hood Museum of Art, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California, May 5-August 31, 2003.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Julie Aronson, Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008, p.124, ill. fig. 51.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 126, no. 99.
Provenance
Helen L. Card Gallery, New York; sold to M. R. Schweitzer (dealer), New York, September 25, 1963; sold to present collection, 1964.
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