James Stanley Connor (1857–1904)

JAMES STANLEY CONNOR (1857–1904)
Spring (Morning Glory), 1886
Marble, 19 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (oval)
Signed, dated, and inscribed (along edge, at lower right): Stanley Connor Florence 1886

RECORDED: “Loans Medallion to Art Institute,” The Decatur Daily Review, May 24, 1926, p. 9 // “Add Medallion to Collection at Institute,” The Decatur Herald, May 24, 1926, p. 3 // Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), p. 369

EXHIBITED: Decatur Art Institute, Millikin University, Decatur Illinois, on loan, 1926

EX COLL: the artist; to his maternal aunt, Susan Sophia Irwin (Mrs. Richard Bartholamew) Leonard (1837–1918); to her daughter, Catherine Ellen Leonard (Mrs. Charles Henry) Cassell (1858–1938); to her son, Charles Leonard Cassell (1882–1945); to his wife, Netti Ann Kell Cassell, 1886–1964; to her son and daughter-in-law, Leonard Kell Cassell (1909–1941) and Lila Dell Wilson Cassell (1916–2001); to their daughter, by descent until the present

In May 1926, on the occasion of the loan of the present medallion to the Art Institute of Decatur (Illinois), The Decatur Herald suggested that Spring (Morning Glory) was “one of four similar medallions each representing a season.”