



Chester Beach(1881-1956)Beyond 62 x 17 x 19in
Sold for US$21,325 inc. premium
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Aaron Bastian
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Kathy Wong
Director, US Business Development, Fine Art
Chester Beach (1881-1956)
inscribed 'Beach' (on the marble behind her left calf)
carved marble
62 x 17 x 19in
Executed in 1911-1912.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Archer Milton Huntington, New York City, New York, prior to 1926.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, gift from the above, 1926.
Sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibited
San Francisco, California, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, no. 4531 (Silver Medal).
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Held Under the Auspices of the National Sculpture Society, June 17 - October 2, 1916, no. 78.
Literature
Official Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (with awards), San Francisco, The Wahlgreen Company, 1915, p. 81, 230.
Albright Art Gallery, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Held Under the Auspices of the National Sculpture Society, Buffalo, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1916, p. 50.
B. Porter, Art in California: A survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, R. L. Bernier, 1916, pl. 203, p. 82, full page illustration.
B. M. Donaldson, "American Sculpture at Buffalo," The American Magazine of Art,
Vol. 7, No. 10, August 1916, p. 419.
"A Group of Sculpture by Chester Beach," The American Magazine of Art, New York, The American Federation of Arts, October 1916, p. 502, full page black and white illustration.