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ROSES OF YESTERDAY

measurements
height: 65 in.

alternate measurements
(165.1 cm)

inscribed © Harriet W. Frishmuth on base, inscribed Perennis Amor on the sundial with the Gorham Co. Founders foundry mark on the side of the base

bronze

Modeled in 1923; Cast 1924-40.

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, Texas
Lillian Nassau Ltd., New York, 1985 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner's parents, circa 1990

LITERATURE

Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 36, 210, illustration of another example
Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, p. 40

NOTE

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth wrote: "Roses of Yesterday I think is my best sundial, originally designed in 1923 as a memorial to Mr. Walden, great lover of children and flowers, the gnomon on the dial is a butterfly symbolizing the fleeting hours (four other bronzes have been sold)." The sculpture was cast in an edition of 5 or 6. A cast originally at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens was deaccessioned in 1997 and is now in private hands. Other examples can be found at Rice Cemetery in Elkhart, Indiana, and Mount Evergreen Cemetery in Jackson, Michigan. The location of a fifth cast, previously deposited at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx on behalf of the Wise family, is unknown.