Pair of Hounds (1912): Art, History and Details

Pair of Hounds (1912) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles Cary Rumsey (American, 1879–1922).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Inspired by a pair of andirons Charles Carey Rumsey created for a client, these sculptures feature a hound seated on a base adorned with hares and winged foxes, and supported by tortoises.

Object facts

• Title: Pair of Hounds
• Date: 1912
• Creator attribution: Charles Cary Rumsey (American, 1879–1922)
• Culture: America
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Each: 86.4 x 43.2 cm (34 x 17 in.)
• Collection: American - Sculpture
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1923.727

A detail from the museum

Sculptor Charles Carey Rumsey was also a championship polo player.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Solender, Katherine. The American Way in Sculpture, 1890-1930. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
• W. M. M. "Contemporary American Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 10 (1919): 151-63.

View the collection record

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