Solitude
Artist
George Grey Barnard
(American, 1863-1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1906
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 26 1/2 x 18 x 8 1/4 in. (67.3 x 45.7 x 21 cm)
InscribedInscribed lower right: Barnard / 1906
Credit LineGift of James H. Ricau and Museum purchase
Object number86.459
Not on view
ProvenanceJ. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Boston, Ma., by 1908; ...; Martha R. Peters, Boston, Ma.; Vose Galleries, Boston, 1964; James H. Ricau, Piermont, Ny., 1964; Gift of James H. Ricau and Chrysler Museum Purchase, 1986.
Exhibition History"Exhibition of Sculpture by George Grey Barnard," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., October - November 1908, cat. no. 8.
"The Ricau Collection," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., February 26 - April 23, 1989.
Published References"An American Sculptor," _Outlook_ 90 (November 28, 1908): 655-656.
James Huneker, "The Boston Museum: George Grey Barnard," _New-York Sun_ (November 15, 1908): 8.
Ernest Knaufft, "George Grey Barnard: A Virile American Sculptor," _American Review of Reviews_ 38 (December 1908): 691.
Katherine Metcalf Roof, "George Grey Barnard: The Spirit of the New World in Sculpture," _Craftsman_ 15 (December 1908): 274, 277-278.
William Howe Downes, "Mr. Barnard's Exhibit in Boston, Which Appealed to the Connoisseurs and the Crowd Alike," _World's Work_ 17 (February 1909): 11, 267.
Harold E. Dickson, _George Grey Barnard, Centenary Exhibition, 1863-1963_, exh. cat., The Pennsylvania State University Library, Pa., 1963, 24, 27.
H. Nichols B. Clark, _A Marble Quarry: The James H. Ricau Collection of Sculpture at the Chrysler Museum of Art_, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., 1997: 253-255.
