Sally James Farnham
August 27 - October 30, 2005

 

Cowboy Fun

By Sally James Farnham, 1905
Lost-wax bronze cast at Roman Bronze Works
Gift of the Remington Estate

Farnham visited her British Columbia ranch after completion of Ogdensburg’s Spirit of Liberty monument. The trip perhaps inspired this bronze, a tribute gift to Frederic Remington.

 

Theodore Roosevelt

By Sally James Farnham, 1905-1906
Lost-wax bronze cast at Roman Bronze Works
Gift of Edward C. Madill
from the collection of Grant C. Madill, 1943

Jacob Riis commissioned Farnham to create this bas-relief for his Neighborhood Settlement House. This cast came to us through Farnham’s brother-in-law.

 

Lynn Fontanne

By Sally James Farnham, c. 1925
Lost-wax bronze cast at Roman Bronze Works
Museum purchase, 2002

Fontanne, a famous stage actress, performed with her husband, Alfred Lunt, from the 1920s to the 1960s.

 

 

Enos Booth, Esq. in Riding Habit

By Sally James Farnham, 1917
Lost-wax bronze cast at Roman Bronze Works
Museum purchase, 2004

Booth was Farnham’s attorney.

 

 

Jascha Heifetz

By Sally James Farnham, 1923
Lost-wax bronze cast at Roman Bronze Works
Museum purchase, 2005

This lovely cutaway bust demonstrates Farnham’s gift for portraiture. Heifetz, (1899-1987) the greatest violinist of his day, was part of Farnham’s wide circle of intellectual and artistic friends.

 

The Madill Grandchildren

By Sally James Farnham, 1931
Bronze
Gift of Katharine Brown Madill, 1984

Mary Kate, Chris and Emily Madill are Farnham’s great nieces and nephew. Emily donated Spring in the Jungle, in the case to the right.

 

 

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Sally James Farnham, 1921
Plaster
Gift Sally James Farnham, 1927

Foch (1851-1929) was the supreme commander of the allied forces during World War I.

 

 

Warren G. Harding

By Sally James Farnham, 1921
Plaster cast
Gift of the artist, 1927

Harding heartily approved of this portrait. In a letter to Farnham he called it “really the most nearly perfect of anything that has ever been done of me.”

 

 

Rain

By Sally James Farnham, 1923
Lost-wax bronze cast at Roman Bronze Works
Museum purchase, 2001 with funds donated by William Clark; Peter Huff; and from Katharine Brown MacKay and Robert Torrey MacKay, Jr. in memory of their mother, Mary Kate Madill MacKay.

 

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