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ELI HARVEY Lion Cub, Surprised.
Bronze, 1905. 762 mm; 3 inches (height, excluding marble base). Inscribed with the artist's signature and copyright along the edge.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Exhibited: "Twenty-eighth Exhibition," Society of American Artists, New York, March 17-April 22, 1906, number 405; "Winter Exhibition," National Academy of Design, New York, December 12, 1908-January 9, 1909, number 489.
Published: "The Society of Artists," The New York Times, volume LV, number 17583, March 16, 1906, page 3; "The Last Exhibit of the Artists' Society," Pubic Opinion, volume XL, issue 13, March 31, 1906, page 403; "Als Ik Kan: Notes, Reviews," The Craftsman, volume X, number 3, June 1906, page 400.
Harvey (1860-1957) was an American sculptor and painter, best known for his animal bronzes. He was born in Ogden, Ohio, a Quaker community, and studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, continuing his artistic pursuits with travels to Paris during the late 1880s and 1890s. He exhibited at both the Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, New York, 1900) and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904) and a decade later at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, California, 1915). Harvey also produced architectural sculpture for the lion house at the Bronx Zoo, New York. Though he is perhaps best known for a life-sized bronze elk he produced for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and used at their buildings and in cemeteries around the United States.
