Circa 1925, bronze fountain with attractive verdigris patina, signed along base "E. Barretto Parsons," likely cast by Gorham but no foundry mark is visible.

36 in.

Private collection, Richmond, VA

Born in Halifax, Virginia, Edith Parsons studied with Daniel Chester French and other instructors at the Art Students League of New York. She sculpted figures for the 1902 St. Louis Exposition and exhibited work at the National Academy of Design. She created one version of "Duck Baby" for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. Her sculptural work of children is among her most revered. A 1917 article by Clara Savage in House Beautiful mentions her daughter and how "her laughing little face tells the secret of where her mother found the spirit of sheer childish glee which is expressed in much of her work." ("A Home and a Studio: Where Edith Baretto Parsons models the Adorable Babies that Win the Hearts of All who see them," House Beautiful, Volume 42, November 1917)

$20,000 - 30,000