Lot 19: Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942) Old Woman Picking Up Coal 11 1/4in high

Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942)
Old Woman Picking Up Coal inscribed 'A St L Eberle' (along the base)bronze with dark brown patina11 1/4in highModeled by 1908.
LiteratureL. Mechlin, "The National Sculpture Society's Exhibition at Baltimore - II. Imaginative Work," International Studio, vol. XXXV, no. 138, August 1908, p. XLVIII, another example illustrated.Abastenia St. Leger Eberle: Sculptor (1878-1942), Des Moines, Iowa, 1980, n.p., no. 44, another example listed.C.S. Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 215.While the exact size of the edition of Old Woman Picking Up Coal sculptures is unknown, an exhibition catalogue produced by the Des Moines Art Center, the author notes that Eberle's genre figures were believed to be cast in relatively limited numbers. (Abastenia St. Leger Eberle: Sculptor (1878-1942), Des Moines, Iowa, 1980, n.p.) Another example of Old Woman Picking Up Coal can be found in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.