The Spartan Mother

ca. 1918

Sherry Edmundson Fry , Artist Roman Bronze Works, N.Y. , Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title The Spartan Mother

Artwork Date ca. 1918

Makers Sherry Edmundson Fry (Artist) American, 1879-1966 (Foundry) Roman Bronze Works, N.Y. founded 1899, active 19th-20th century

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Including base: 26 × 10 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (66 × 27.3 × 29.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 77.60

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Signed Signed, on side of pedestal: SHERRY FRY

Inscriptions Inscribed: Roman Bronze Works, New York

Provenance

by 1919, George G. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1919-1944, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1944, transferred to George G. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1944-1972, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1972-1977, Graham Galleries (New York, New York, USA) purchased at Sotheby’s Auction, May 3, 1972, lot #140;
1977-present, purchased by the Beatrice W. Rogers Fund for Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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The Cranbrook Collections. Sales cat., Sotheby, Parke-Bernet. New York, May 2-5, 1972, lot no. 40 [sale 3360].

Arts and Crafts in Detroit: 1906-1976. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1976, p. 94, no. 72 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5 (1977): p. 269 (fig. 7).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Sherry Edmundson Fry; Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., The Spartan Mother, ca. 1918, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, 77.60.