Janet Scudder (American, 1869-1940) - Cast bronze figure - Frog Baby Fountain

Janet Scudder (American, 1869-1940) - Cast bronze figure - Frog Baby Fountain, a young boy dancing with arms outstretched and one leg raised, the circular base with three frog fountain heads (to re-plumb), base edge signed 'JANET SCUDDER' and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N. Y.', 30.5cm high, raised on an ebonised socle, 36.5cm overall Literature: Janet Scudder, Modeling My Life (New York, 1925), pp. 134-135, other examples illustrated. Born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder in Indiana, Janet Scudder's journey to becoming a pioneering American sculptor was one of hardship and perseverance. She experienced a difficult childhood as the fifth of seven children, four of whom died before adulthood, and her mother died when she was five. She spent much of her early adulthood teaching woodcarving and working at a furniture factory to support her parents, siblings, and grandparents, and despite her family's financial straits she managed to pursue her love of art. Scudder studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1890s, and she was one of the group of women sculptors (called the "White Rabbits") assisting Lorado Taft on his sculptures for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She departed for Paris in 1894 to study with Frederick W. MacMonnies, and a few years later she became the first woman employed in his workshop. Over her career, which she spent primarily in New York and Paris, Scudder received a number of notable public commissions, including the seal for the New York Bar Association (1894), decoration for the 1900 Paris Exposition, and a 1915 Congressional Gold Medal. Scudder was very active in war relief efforts during WWI and WWII and in the women's suffrage movement. The present work is an example of what Scudder called her "water babies". Scudder began designing garden fountains after a trip to Italy and Paris in the late 1890s. A close friendship with the Beaux-Art architect Stanford White led to the first commission of a "Frog Fountain" for White's Long Island estate, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art also commissioned one in 1906 at the recommendation of Daniel Chester French. Scudder's fountains found a strong market in the wealthy elite and commissions came in from John D. Rockefeller, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, and Henry Huntington, among others. They remain her most popular works. Janet Scudder (American, 1869-1940) - Cast bronze figure - Frog Baby Fountain, a young boy dancing with arms outstretched and one leg raised, the circular base with three frog fountain heads (to re-plumb), base edge signed 'JANET SCUDDER' and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N. Y.', 30.5cm high, raised on an ebonised socle, 36.5cm overall, Literature:, Janet Scudder, Modeling My Life (New York, 1925), pp. 134-135, other examples illustrated. Born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder in Indiana, Janet Scudder's journey to becoming a pioneering American sculptor was one of hardship and perseverance. She experienced a difficult childhood as the fifth of seven children, four of whom died before adulthood, and her mother died when she was five. She spent much of her early adulthood teaching woodcarving and working at a furniture factory to support her parents, siblings, and grandparents, and despite her family's financial straits she managed to pursue her love of art. Scudder studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1890s, and she was one of the group of women sculptors (called the "White Rabbits") assisting Lorado Taft on his sculptures for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She departed for Paris in 1894 to study with Frederick W. MacMonnies, and a few years later she became the first woman employed in his workshop. Over her career, which she spent primarily in New York and Paris, Scudder received a number of notable public commissions, including the seal for the New York Bar Association (1894), decoration for the 1900 Paris Exposition, and a 1915 Congressional Gold Medal. Scudder was very active in war relief efforts during WWI and WWII and in the women's suffrage movement. The present work is an example of what Scudder called her "water babies". Scudder began designing garden fountains after a trip to Italy and Paris in the late 1890s. A close friendship with the Beaux-Art architect Stanford White led to the first commission of a "Frog Fountain" for White's Long Island estate, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art also commissioned one in 1906 at the recommendation of Daniel Chester French. Scudder's fountains found a strong market in the wealthy elite and commissions came in from John D. Rockefeller, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, and Henry Huntington, among others. They remain her most popular works. Share this, Share this, Share this, Share this

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