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Charles Rumsey “Fox Hound Seated, Study for Andirons”
Bronze Sculpture, c. 1912 13 x 2 1/2 x 6 3/4”
Embossed on base with foundry stamp and signature
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was taken by his parents to Paris in 1893.
After graduating from Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, devoted special emphasis to the study of the horse, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Apart from sculpture, horses were the great passion of his life. He was a superb rider and a world-class polo champion. Charles Rumsey was an 8 goal polo player with Meadowbrook Polo Club Long Island NY.
Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bronze and stone, often employing mythology and historical themes articulated in private commissions for freestanding statuary and in public monuments. His 40-foot bas relief panels of Indians, horses and buffalos for the Manhattan Bridge and the heroic subject matter of Rice Stadium commission are examples.
Rumsey was one of the more notable sculptors working in the Beaux-Arts tradition, a monumental and grandiose style that was the chief mode of public sculpture of Rumsey’s day. Yet he was far more than a standard producer of facile monuments. In his brief career (he died in an automobile accident in 1922) he touched on realistic and quasi-impressionist styles
Museum Collections:
Beaux Arts Museum Paris France
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nassau County Museum of Art, Nassau Co.NY
Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey
Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Exhibitions:
Pan American Exposition Buffalo 1901
Architectural league of New York 23rd exhibition “National Sculpture Society Exhibition under the Auspices of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore,
Fifth Regiment Armory Baltimore, 1908
Architectural League of NY 24th Exhibition 1909
Architectural League of NY 27th Exhibition 1912
MacBeth Galleries NY “A Collection of Small Bronzes by American Sculptors” 1912
1913 Armory Show, NY,
International Exhibition of Modern Art” Art Institute of Chicago 1913
“A Collection of small bronzes” MacBeth Galleries, National Sculpture Society 1913
Kingore Gallery Exhibition NY 1913
Architectural league of NY 28th Exhibition
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo NY “An exhibition of works by Buffalo Artists” 1914
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania 1914
Panama Pacific International exhibition, San Francisco, California 1915
Bronzes from the Panama Pacific International Exhibition, Fine Arts Institute , Kansas City Missouri 1916
The Sculptors Gallery, “Exhibition of sculptures by Charles Cary Rumsey” N 9-4-1917-5-5-1917
The Thirty Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes at the John Herron Art Institute” 1917
The Art Association of Indianapolis , Indiana 1917
Exhibition of American Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1918
American Painting and Sculpture, Pertaining to the War” Knoedlers, NY 1918-1919
The First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1919
Exhibition by the Society of American Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, The Art Institute of Chicago 1920
The Architectural league of New York, the 36th Annual Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, 1921
Carnegie Institute Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1921
The Architectural league of NY 28th Annual Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1923
Exhibition of American Sculpture, the National Sculpture Society, NY 1923
Exposition Retrospective de L’ourvre “Charles Cary Rumsey” Societe’ Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1927
Exhibition of Sculpture, The Brooklyn Museum NY 1930
The American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, Whitney Museum of Art NY 1932
American Sculpture and Paintings, Museum of Modern Art NY 1932-1933
A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933
The Centennial Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1936
Three Centuries of American Art, Organized by the Museum of Modern Art NY Muse’ du Jeu de Paume, Paris 1938
Sport in Art, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo NY 1948
A Survey of American Sculpture, late 18th century to 1962, Newark Museum of Art New Jersey. 1962
The National Art Museum of Sport Premier Exhibition, Madison Square Garden Center, NY 1968
The Horse in America, Monmouth Museum, Red Bank New Jersey 1970
American Art in the Newark Museum, 1981
Fidos and Heroes in Bronze, the Dog Museum of America, NY 1983
The Shock of Modernism in America Nassau County Museum of Art 1984
American Sporting Art, Anderson Galleries, NY 1986
Sporting Art, Anderson Galleries NY, 1988
Polo in America, in conjunction with American Cup Polo Tournament, Meadowbrook Polo Club NY Anderson Galleries 1994
The Horse in Art, Lynda Anderson Galleries, Locust Valley NY 1997
Sporting Sculpture, Lynda Anderson Galleries, Locust Valley NY 2002
The Horse in Art, 1850-1950 Lynda Anderson Galleries, Locust Valley NY 2005
The Dog in Art, Lynda Anderson Galleries, Locust Valley NY 2007
The Dog in American Art, Lynda Anderson Galleries, Locust Valley, NY 2009