Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, in memory of his late friend, Fritz Woehle of Birmingham Alabama, AFI.73.2021
Signature Right side, chisled into marble: GEO BRIDGES Sc
Inscription None
Provenance George Bridges (1899-1976), Birmingham, Alabama; descended to his wife Eleanor Bridges (1899-1987), Birmingham, Alabama, 1976; descended to Mary Eleanor "London" Bridges, Birmingham, Alabama, 1987; purchased by Eric and Diana Hanson, Birmingham, Alabama, about 1987 [see note 1]; purchased by Fritz Woehle (1929-2017), Birmingham, Alabama, about 1987; purchased by Patrick Cather; his gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2021
1. Patrick Cather recalls that Woehle told him that he purchased the Bridges bust from the buyers of the Georges Bridges residence in Homewood on the corner of Edgewood Boulevard and Roseland Drive as part of a group of several things Woehle purchased which London Bridges had left to be sold with the house. Email correspondence between Katelyn Crawford and Patrick Cather, 7/21/2021
