HENRY MERWIN SHRADY (1871-1922)
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HENRY MERWIN SHRADY (1871-1922)

Bull Moose

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HENRY MERWIN SHRADY (1871-1922)
Bull Moose
inscribed 'HM-SHRADY' and 'COPYRIGHT/1900/Theodore B STARR' (along the base)—stamped '11./R.B.W./N.Y.' (underneath the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high
Modeled in 1900.
Literature
A.T. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, p. 109, another example referenced.
P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 241, 243, fig. 261, another example illustrated.
Graham Gallery, The Animal in Sculpture: American and European, 19th and 20th Century, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1987, pp. 70, 85, another example illustrated.
R. Butler. S.G. Lindsay, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2000, p. 465.
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume II, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, New York, 2001, pp. 544-45, no. 243, another example illustrated.
L.D. Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2002, p. 126, fig. IV-137, another example illustrated.
A.D. Harris, Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Norman, Oklahoma, 2009, pp. 105-06, fig. 3.10, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, T.B. Smith, The American West in Bronze, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013, pp. 71-72, fig. 90, another example illustrated.

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Lot Essay

After dealer Theodore B. Starr purchased the copyrights for the present work, he began selling casts in his New York storefront, drawing the attention of Karl Bitter. The director of sculpture for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition of Buffalo, New York, Bitter was struck by Shrady's work and asked the artist to model life-sized versions to adorn the grounds. Over six weeks, Shrady enlarged this model into a nine-foot tall moose, erected in plaster to decorate the canal bridges of the fairgrounds.

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