Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865-1925)
Eagle of Preparedness, 1916
signed, dated, and inscribed "Copyrighted P W Bartlett 1916" on back and side
bronze, 12 3/4 by 4 1/4 by 4 1/2 in.
titled on banner

Paul Wayland Bartlett was born in New Haven to a sculptor father, Truman Bartlett. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he then worked for many years, exhibiting at the Paris Salon regularly. He served as President of the National Sculpture Society, and his work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among other museums.

Created in response to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1916 and in support for the Allies in World War I, an edition of ?Eagle of Preparedness? is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Provenance: Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

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12.75 x 4.5 in