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Literature
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, p. 126, another example listed.
M. Smart and E.A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937) with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist's Works, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, pp. 85, 89-90, 92, 99, 106, 150, 156, 237, 288, no. 22, other examples illustrated.
The subject of Pan was initially conceived by Macmonnies in 1890 for a commission from Edward D. Adams of New Jersey. Executed as a 6-foot fountain, the work stood in the garden of Adams's Rohallion Estate designed by the fashionable architect Stanford White. As recorded in A Flight With Fame, upon completion of the sculpture, Adams gave MacMonnies permission to make unlimited reproductions of Pan with the directive that none of these reproductions exceed 3-feet in height. Pan of Rohallion was eventually produced in four different sizes, the present work being one among the second largest version, which measured from 28 1/2 to 30 3/4 inches. It was cast well into the 1920s and became a great commercial success for the artist.