TitlePaul Wayland Bartlett
Artist
Charles Grafly
(American, 1862 - 1929)
Date1916
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 26 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 11 in.
Other (Sculpture): 16 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.
Other (Base): 10 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
SignedInscribed at right truncation edge: "Grafly-1916"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1953
Object number122-S
Label TextThis was the second of two depictions Grafly modeled of his friend and fellow sculptor Paul Bartlett during the summer of 1916 at Grafly's studio in Folly Cove, Massachusetts. The first version (Philadelphia Museum of Art) is sometimes referred to as the "smiling" Bartlett due to its less serious expression. As Pamela Simpson has pointed out, Bartlett may have preferred the second, or "sober" version because he had it cast by the Roman Bronze Works, New York, for presentation to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Another casting, owned by the Grafly family, was included in the Grafly memorial exhibition held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1930. The cast now in the National Academy's collection was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art from the Roman Bronze Works in 1939. A bronze version is also in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
