Lot 89: Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866-1947)

Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866-1947)
'A Chief of the Multnomah Tribe'
inscribed 'HA MacNeil/'05' and 'MVLTNOMAH' (along the base)--stamped 'AMER. ART FDRY. NY' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
36 in. (91.4 cm.) high

Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Spatial Matters: Sculpture from the Collection, January 21-August 4, 1996.
New York, Paine Webber Gallery, Expanding a Legacy: American Art from the Montclair Art Museum, September 20-November 30, 2001.

P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 89-90, 411, fig. 85, another example illustrated (as A Chief of the Multinomah Tribe).
Montclair Art Museum, Spatial Matters: Sculpture from the Collection, exhibition catalogue, Montclair, New Jersey, 1996, p. 16.
D.J. Hassler, J.M. Marter and T. Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 2. A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, New York, 2001, pp. 480-81, no. 212, another example illustrated.
National Academy of Design, Side by Side: American Sculpture from the Collections of the National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2003, pp. 2, 8, no. 6b, another example illustrated.

Florence O.R. Lang.
By bequest to the present owner from the above, 1943.

Property of the Montclair Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisition Endowment Fund