拍品专文
Describing Bessie Potter Vonnoh's Springtime of Life, Julie Aronson writes, "the sculpture portrays an adolescent girl amidst representatives of the natural world. The willowy lines of the nude figure are a trait often seen in Vonnoh's garden sculpture. At the girl's foot is a charming rabbit modeled on a docile creature the artist borrowed from the Zoological Society...When placed in a garden or fountain setting, Springtime of Life, piped so that water ran off the shell in the girl's hand, was seen to great advantage. In 1928 it won the prize for the best single figure at the Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, where it adorned a large pool in the middle of Rittenhouse Square." (Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2009, p. 190)