Lot 18: HENRY MERVIN SHRADY 1871 - 1922

HENRY MERVIN SHRADY 1871 - 1922 GEORGE WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE inscribed Copyrighted 1904 by H.M. Shrady with the Roman Bronze Works N.Y. 1904 foundry mark and numbered 5 . beneath the base bronze, brown patina height: 25 in. (63.5 cm) Cast circa 1906.

Charles DeKay, "Henry Merwin Shrady's Washington for Brooklyn," The New York Times, October 1, 1905
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 241
Lewis I. Sharp, New York Public Sculpture by 19th Century American Artists, New York, 1974, pp. 18-19, illustration of another example
Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, New York, 2001, pp. 547-548, illustration of another example

Private Estate, Florida
Private Collection, by 1996

In 1901, Henry Merwin Shrady won the sculpture competition for the George Washington equestrian group to be placed on the approach to the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn. The life-size group was unveiled in 1906. The present bronze is a replica of the maquette that was approved for the monument.

Other editions of this sculpture are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburgh, Pennsylvania.