About This Artwork

Arnold Rönnebeck
American, born Germany, 1885-1947

London Wedding, c. 1924

Bronze
35.6 x 15.2 x 15.9 cm (14 x 6 x 6 1/4 in.)
Signed: A. RONNEBECK Sc (second step edge)
Marked: KUNST-FOUNDRY N.Y. (rear top base)
Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments, 2004.490

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Weyhe Gallery, New York, Sculpture, Drawings and Lithographs by Arnold Rönnebeck, April 27-May 16, 1925, cat. 11, as "London Wedding" (cast unknown, possibly AIC).

Western Association Museum Directors (organizers), Exhibition of Paintings, Wood Carvings and Bronzes b Arnold Ronnebeck and Warren Wheelock, shown at Memphis, Tenn., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, October 1-31, 1926, cat. 6, as "London Wedding" (cast unknown, possibly AIC).

Chicago, Ill., The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Robert Laurent and the American Figurative Sculpture: Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, October 4-December 11, 1994, cat. 40, fig. 29, as "Man and Woman Descending the Stairs (A Wedding Couple)".

Publication History

“Art: Three Sculptors Who Have Recently Exhibited Their Work in New York,” Vogue 65, 11 (Jun. 1, 1925), p. 67, ill., as "London Wedding."

Roberta K. Tarbell, Robert Laurent and the American Figurative Sculpture: Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, exh. cat. (The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 1994), pp. 19-20, 51, fig. 29, as "Man and Woman Descending the Stairs (A Wedding Couple)."

Reba White Williams, The Weyhe Gallery Between the Wars, 1919-1940 (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1996), pp. 232, 484, 494 (cast in general).

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 46.

Ownership History

Weyhe Gallery, New York; sold to John N. Stern, Winnetka, IL, from about 1980 to 2004; sold by Stern through Conner-Rosencranz to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.