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Signed base top, right-bottom, in cast: "A. FAGGI [underlined] / 1931 [underlined]"; inscribed base right, in cast: "CAST BY / AM-ART BRONZE FDY / CHICAGO-1932".
C.J. Bulliet, “Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art” (Chicago, 1927) p. 222.
C.J. Bulliet, “Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art” (Chicago, 1930) p. 238.
Guy Edlinton, “Reaching for Art” (Boston, 1931) p. 123 (ill.).
Robert B. Harshe, Catalogue of the Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), n.p., cat. 233.
Daniel Catton Rich, “Three Pieces of Modern Sculpture,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 28, no. 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1934): 63–66 (ill.).
Robert B. Harshe, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 88, cat. 755.
Daniel Catton Rich, Half a Century of American Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1939), 54, cat. 190, pl. 76 (ill.).
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs, Mar. 24–Apr. 15, 1931, cat. 60. (ill.).
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Sculpture and Drawings by Alfeo Faggi, Feb. 26–Mar. 26, 1941.
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Alfeo Faggi, Mar. 14–Apr. 2, 1946, cat. 29.
The artist, Woodstock, NY; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1932.
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