Lot 37: LOWELL BIRGE HARRISON (1854-1929) On the Delaware signed ‘Birge Harrison’ (

LOWELL BIRGE HARRISON (1854-1929) On the Delaware signed ‘Birge Harrison’ (lower left) oil on canvas 30 x 40in

Provenance The artist. Mrs. Birge Harrison, Woodstock, New York, by descent from the above. Mr. Thomas H. Denman, acquired from the above, circa 1930s. By descent to the present owner from the above. Exhibited Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Museum of Art, Third Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, April 9-May 30, 1917, no. 55, p. 17. Exhibited San Francisco, California, Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., Theodore Earl Butler (1860-1936): American Impressionist, June 16-July 15, 1972, p. 14, no. 728, illustrated. This painting will be included in Patrick Bertrand’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of Theodore Earl Butler. We are grateful for his assistance cataloguing this lot. 4647 Literature J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, and T. Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, New York, 2006, pp. 150-51, no. 1921:1, another example illustrated. According to Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Roman Bronze Works produced forty-six casts of The Vine. The present work is among one of the casts from this limited production. Another three hundred and seventeen casts were produced by Gorham Co. Founders, from a total edition of three hundred and ninety-six casts from 1921 to 1966.