Mother and Child (Mother and Babe)
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, American, 1872 - 1955
Roman Bronze Works, New York
1902
Bronze
Cast no. 7
Overall: 10 3/4 × 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (27.3 × 19 × 24.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
S.964.57
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, on back: Bessie Potter Vonnoh, No. VII, 1902; on back: Copyright Roman Bronze Works, N.Y.
Exhibition History
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.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 12, 2021.
American Viewpoints: Painting and Sculpture from the Hood Museum of Art, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California, May 5-August 31, 2003.
Gifts of the Class of 1937, Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 11, 1973.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
New England Women, As Artist, As Subjects-1820-1920, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, November 18-December 11, 1987.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 126, no. 99.
Julie Aronson, Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008, p.124, ill. fig. 51.
Provenance
Helen L. Card Gallery, New York, New York; sold to M. R. Schweitzer (dealer), New York, New York, September 25, 1963; sold to present collection, 1964.
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