Clinton Ogilvie

TitleClinton Ogilvie

Artist Paul Wayland Bartlett (American, 1865 - 1925)

Date1919

MediumBronze

DimensionsOverall: 21 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 12 in. Other (Sculpture): 16 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 12 in. Other (Base): 6 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.

Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of W. Francklyn Paris, 1928

Object number8-S

Label TextThis bust would appear to be a later reworking and casting of a marble version given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Ogilvie's widow in 1920. Bartlett could have met Ogilvie in Paris as early as 1879; the marble almost certainly dates from the last decades of the nineteenth century. While the marble, both in medium and in modeling, would appear to be closer to the older, Neo-Classic tradition, the bronze is more in keeping with Bartlett's mature, Beaux-Arts style.
Another bronze version with a more formal composition than the Academy's bust--and resplendent with depictions of pallette and brushes--is in the collection of New York University. Like the Academy's, it is dated 1919. It is likely, therefore, that both bronzes are the result of castings requested by Paris with presentation to the Hall of American Artists at New York University in mind. A third bronze cast is in the collection of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. Although it was cast by a different foundry, B. Zoppo, New York, than the Academy's bust, but the two works appear to be identical.