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Charles Rumsey “Female Seated Nude” “Pagan”
Charles Rumsey 1879-1922 Female Seated Nude, Bronze Sculpture
10 1/2 x 11 x 6” Signed embossed on base
Burchfield Center Catalog
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was taken by his parents to Paris in 1893.
After graduating from Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, devoted special emphasis to the study of the horse, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Apart from sculpture, horses were the great passion of his life. He was a superb rider and a world-class 8 goal polo player with Meadowbrook Polo Club Long Island NY.