Untitled (Portrait Bust of C.E.S. Wood)
Olin Levi Warner, Untitled (Portrait Bust of C.E.S. Wood), 1888, cast bronze, Gift of Helen Ladd Corbett, public domain, 25.19
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- Title
Untitled (Portrait Bust of C.E.S. Wood)
- Artist
- Date
1888
- Medium
cast bronze
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
20 3/4 in x 8 in x 9 1/2 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
foundry mark: JNO. WILLIAMS / FOUNDER N.Y., stamp, back, center, at lowest edge of integral socle Description: block letters
date: Aug -- 1888, carved, lower portion of back of bust; above socle, toward viewer's right Description: written in script
dedication inscription and signature: To / my friend / C.E.S. Wood (Wood is underlined) / Olin Warner, carved, lower portion of back of bust; above socle, toward viewer's left Description: written in script
signature/maker's mark: at the back of the base: Olin L. Warner, Portland, 1888
- Collection Area
American Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Sculpture
- Object Type
sculpture
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Helen Ladd Corbett
- Accession Number
25.19
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Olin Levi Warner received his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1869-1872. When he returned to America, he struggled initially to make a living as a sculptor, but gradually obtained a reputation for his finely modeled portrait busts and medallions. Warner is credited with popularizing low-relief sculpture in America through such commissions as his bronze doors for the Library of Congress. His personal style combined the elegance and careful modeling of Beaux-Arts technique with a more classical sensibility and can be seen here in this portrait bust of close friend, advocate, and Museum founder, C.E.S. Wood.
Better known for his patronage of artists than for his own paintings, C.E.S. Wood was a gifted amateur whose watercolors and oil paintings frequently show the influence of the impressionist style favored by his friends J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam. Wood first exhibited promise as an artist during his years at West Point, where his instructor was Weir’s father Robert W. Weir.
Olin Levi Warner received his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1869-1872. When he returned to America, he struggled initially to make a living as a sculptor, but gradually obtained a reputation for his finely modeled portrait busts and medallions. Warner is credited with popularizing low-relief sculpture in America through such commissions as his bronze doors for the Library of Congress. His personal style combined the elegance and careful modeling of Beaux-Arts technique with a more classical sensibility and can be seen here in this portrait bust of close friend, advocate, and Museum founder, C.E.S. Wood.
Better known for his patronage of artists than for his own paintings, C.E.S. Wood was a gifted amateur whose watercolors and oil paintings frequently show the influence of the impressionist style favored by his friends J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam. Wood first exhibited promise as an artist during his years at West Point, where his instructor was Weir's father Robert W. Weir.
