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    		• Frishmuth, Harriet Whitney,
     
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    		• Gorham Manufacturing Company,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Nude
     
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    		• Animal -- Fish
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Canajoharie
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Humoresque, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Frishmuth, Harriet Whitney, 1880-1980, sculptor.
    Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Humoresque, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Calypso, (sculpture).
    Fountain, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1926. Cast 1931.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Basin: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. H. 87 in.
    Description: 
    Full-length nude female figure. She stands on a large fish. Her proper right arm is extended; in her proper left arm she carries a fish. The bronze sculpture stands in the center of a stone fountain. Water shoots out of the mouth of the fish the figure stands on.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Nude
    Animal -- Fish
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Canajoharie
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie, New York 13317
    Remarks: 
    The fountain's benefactor was Bartlett Arkell, one of the founders of Beech-Nut Packing company.
    IAS files contain a copy of a 1931 letter from Mr. Frank Barbour, a vice-President at Beech-Nut and Mr. Arkell's brother-in-law to Miss Frishmuth, mentioning the work by the title Humoresque. The model for this sculpture was the Yugoslavian dancer Desha Delteil (nee Desha Podgorska), who posed for many of Miss Frishmuth’s works. Desha contributed more than just her Grecian figure, as her movement and interpretations of musical compositions were often a component in Miss Frishmuth’s conceptualization and design. In this case, Humoresque by Antonin Dvorak, is displayed as a gleeful nymph cavorting with admiring fish to produce a magnificent fountain. Valeria Langeloth made the original commission for Humoresque for her benevolent recuperation facility, the Valeria Home, in Oscawana, New York. Some of Miss Frishmuth’s work had alternate names, in her order book (which she entrusted to the Syracuse University Library) Humoresque is also referred to as Calypso.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    Orzell, Bill, 2010.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS NY000717
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