Goat

Goat, 1911

Grace Johnson

Bronze
10 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄4 × 4 1⁄2 inches

Signed (front of base): G.M. Johnson. / 1911
Marked (left edge of self-base): Cast by Griffoul. / Newark.N.J.
(under) R1244 / BX 61-15 / 5 [in circle] 21P / 8228 / 10 
Goat / G.M.Johnson (on fiber tape)

Provenance

Conner Rosenkranz LLC, New York
Private collection, New York

Exhibited

  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Annual exhibition, 1913, number #746 (titled Goat)

Literature

  • Moore, Isabel. “A Sculptor of Animals,” The American Magazine of Art. February 1923, volume 14, p. 59-61.
  • Jackman, Rilla Evelyn. American Arts. New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1928, p. 407.
  • Wood, Ruth Kedzie. “Portraying Animals is her Life Work,” The Mentor. May 1929, volume 17, number 4, pp. 26-28.
  • Proske, Beatrice Gilman. Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, 1943. Rev. ed., Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South
  • Carolina, 1968, pp. 184-185 (illustration of another cast).
  • Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Woman Sculptors. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1990, pp. 238-240; 590.