Bust of Edward Henry Harriman (1848 - 1909)

1909–1914

Not on view

Edward Henry Harriman (1848–1909), San Francisco, July 1909; [1]
By descent to W. A. Harriman (1891–1986) and E. Roland Harriman (1895–1978), New York;
Gift to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1940;
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Per Tahinci 2011, p. 329, Harriman’s daughter commissioned the marble from Rodin for 35,000 francs. It was carved by Aristide Rousaud.
Caso, Jacques de and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 310–311, no. 65.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 vols. (Paris: Musée Rodin and Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007), vol. 2, p. 410.
Tahinci, Anna, “Rodin and his American Collectors,” in Barryte, Bernard, and Roberta K. Tarbell, eds., Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876 – 1936, exh. cat. (Stanford: Cantor Arts Center, 2011), p. 329.

Currently on view