Artist: Edward Berge (1876 - 1924)
Active: Maryland
Title: Sea Urchin
Category: Sculpture
Medium: Bronze
Signature: Signed on base, in mold “Berge”
Size: 48”
Subject: Figure
Cast by: Roman Bronze Works, New York
Seller's Notes/Description: This bronze fountain centerpiece is in excellent condition, with the original plumbing system intact within the base.
Price: Please Contact Dealer
Edward Berge - Sea Urchin
Artist: Edward Berge (1876 - 1924)
Active: Maryland
Title: Sea Urchin
Category: Sculpture
Medium: Bronze
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 48”
Subject: Figure
Seller's Notes/Description: This bronze fountain centerpiece is in excellent condition, with the original plumbing system intact within the base.
Price: Please Contact Dealer
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The following biography is from the archives of askART.
A Baltimore, Maryland sculptor Edward Henry Berge was known for his bronze monumental works and figures. He studied at the Maryland Institute and the Rinehart School in Baltimore and the Academie Julian in Paris.
In the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, his work was briefly described by art historian Sheldon Cheney in his 'Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition'. "Perhaps the best way is to start first to familiarize oneself with the smaller bronzes of the purely lyric type, the charming garden figures, sun-dials, and miniature fountains, that make up such an attractive part of the collection. Note how often the names of Edward Berge, Janet Scudder and Anna Coleman Ladd recur in connection with this graceful, intimately appealing sort of sculptureOn another day take the intermediate group, that is dignified but less austere in theme - such works as Sherry Fry's 'Peace,' and Berge's 'Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus.' Studied systematically, there is in this series of statues a broad education in the appreciation of sculpture."
Sources include:
http://www.books-about-california.com/Pages/Art_Lovers_Guide_to_Expo/Art_Lovers_Guide_Chap_12.html
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"