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Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...
The Eagle's Nest Art Colony, the site known in more modern times as the Lorado Taft Field Campus, was founded in 1898 by American sculptor Lorado Taft on the bluffs flanking the east bank of the Rock River, overlooking Oregon, Illinois. The colony was populated by Chicago artists, all members of the Chicago Art Institute or the University of ...
(built as the New York State Pavilion for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition) New York Delaware Park, Buffalo: Pediment [113] Edmond Amateis: George Cary: 1930 Vermont white marble The building's pediment was blank for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. [114] Amateis created the pedimental sculptures and 9 relief panels, 1929-30. [115] Greene ...
Website. richardhuntsculptor.com. Richard Howard Hunt (September 12, 1935 – December 16, 2023) was an American sculptor. [2] In the second half of the 20th century, he became "the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public sculpture." [3] Hunt, the descendant of enslaved people brought from West Africa through the Port ...
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore.He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by ...
Almost 850 artists were commissioned to paint 1,371 murals, most of which were installed in post offices; [4] 162 of the artists were women and three were African American. [4] The Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938), which provided artistic decoration for existing Federal buildings, produced a smaller number of post office murals. [1]
The Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment is a bronze relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens opposite 24 Beacon Street, Boston (at the edge of the Boston Common). It depicts Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading members of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as it marched down Beacon Street on ...
Parthenon Frieze. The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon 's naos. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC, [1] most likely under the direction of Phidias. Of the 160 meters (524 ft) of the original frieze, 128 meters (420 ft) survives—some 80 percent. [2]