1915 (ca.), Paul Wayland Bartlett, Lily Pond -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
Paul Wayland Bartlett was just eight years old when his father, sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett (1835-1922), sent him to France to study. At age fifteen he was admitted to the École des Beaux Arts. Following in his father's footsteps, he became one of America's premier sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with notable commissions here and abroad.
In 1908 Bartlett was awarded the commission for the pediment of the House of Representatives, an elaborate figurative work which represented the Apotheosis of Democracy. In 1910, to complete this sculpture, Bartlett built a Washington, D. C., studio at 237 Randolph Place, NE. He cemented his connection to the capital city when he married Suzanne Emmons (1861-1954), widow of noted geologist Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841-1911) on April 29, 1913.
A decade after Mrs. Bartlett died, her daughter Caroline Ogden-Jones (1895-1965), who had married Armistead Peter 3rd (1896-1983) in 1921 and was living at Tudor Place, gave twenty-one Bartlett sketches to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She suggested that most of these were done while Bartlett was on holiday abroad. More likely, the selection shown here were made in America.
While working on the pediment for the House of Representatives, Bartlett also maintained a studio in New York. These charming images suggest that, when not in Washington, he enjoyed sketching in one of the local parks or at the country home of a fellow artist.
1915 (ca.), Paul Wayland Bartlett, Lily Pond -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
Paul Wayland Bartlett was just eight years old when his father, sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett (1835-1922), sent him to France to study. At age fifteen he was admitted to the École des Beaux Arts. Following in his father's footsteps, he became one of America's premier sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with notable commissions here and abroad.
In 1908 Bartlett was awarded the commission for the pediment of the House of Representatives, an elaborate figurative work which represented the Apotheosis of Democracy. In 1910, to complete this sculpture, Bartlett built a Washington, D. C., studio at 237 Randolph Place, NE. He cemented his connection to the capital city when he married Suzanne Emmons (1861-1954), widow of noted geologist Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841-1911) on April 29, 1913.
A decade after Mrs. Bartlett died, her daughter Caroline Ogden-Jones (1895-1965), who had married Armistead Peter 3rd (1896-1983) in 1921 and was living at Tudor Place, gave twenty-one Bartlett sketches to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She suggested that most of these were done while Bartlett was on holiday abroad. More likely, the selection shown here were made in America.
While working on the pediment for the House of Representatives, Bartlett also maintained a studio in New York. These charming images suggest that, when not in Washington, he enjoyed sketching in one of the local parks or at the country home of a fellow artist.