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Jack Johnson. Bronze Portrait Head.
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Pre 1930 item# 979694 (stock# 2467A)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$5,500
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Bronze portrait head of Jack Johnson (1878-1946), 19.25 inches high including marble plinth, fine patina, bears the legend: "Mercedes B. de Garimaldi." One of the great pugilists of the twentieth century, John Arthur "Jack" Johnson died in a North Carolina car crash after reportedly being refused service at a small diner near Raleigh. He had won the heavyweight title in 1908 in Sydney, Australia, igniting the search for a "Great White Hope." This culminated in the f ...click for details
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"Desperate Straits"
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Pre 1910 item# 914940 (stock# 2468G)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$3,500
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Cast zinc garden figure, 31 inches high. A dramatic rendering of a woman and child on the roof of a house, waves lapping at their feet, the woman desperately scanning the horizon for help. The atmosphere is akin to Winslow Homer's rescue scenes. This sculpture would be a fine addition to a seaside garden on Nantucket or The Vineyard.
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Gustel Morton (1902-1996). Manta Ray.
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Pre 1960 item# 583917 (stock# 2568D)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$1800.
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Solid-cast bronze, mounted on rough pink granite. 21 inches (length) and 7 inches (ht.) Signed "Gustel". Gustel Morton's sculptures were modelled on real and imagined animals. Some were as common as the neighbor's dachshund while others inhabited the secret places of the mind. She gave her creatures, molded from wood, clay and metal, an aura of life grounded on her intuitive sense of the way things move. "Manta Ray" was one of her personal favorites and resided on ...click for details
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Homer Gunn (1919-2001) The Cellist. (bronze)
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Pre 1970 item# 775619 (stock# 2568F)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$1,500
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Sheet bronze, 11 inches max. ht. signed "Gunn" on base. Homer Gunn was born in Woonsocket, RI and raised in Uxbridge, Mass. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1938 to 1941 and after graduating attended the Art Students League for an additional year. He taught from 1942 to 1957, last at Deerfield Academy. Among Gunn's dozens of public (and private) commissions are the War Memorial in Greenfield, Mass. (his most monumental work) and sculptures for the Boston Symp ...click for details
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