Lot 52: Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)

Chafing Dish bronze and brass 141/4 in. (36.2 cm.) high LITERATURE C. S. Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 115, illustration of another example NOTES Executed circa 1897. Carol Brooks MacNeil, wife of the well regarded sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil, was born in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and later in Paris under Frederick MacMonnies. She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and exhibited at the National Sculpture Society. MacNeil specialized in creating decorative but useful objects including ash trays, teapots and such as the present work, chafing dishes. In the present work, the three female figures supporting the chafing dish represents the artist and her two sisters. SALESROOM NOTICE Please note that this work is in fact the work illustrated in C.S. Rubinstein's American Women Sculptors and there are no replicas. Please note additional provenance: Conner-Rosenkranz, New York.