The Hiker
Classification:
Date:
1904
Medium:
Dark black-brown painted bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 1/4 x 10 3/4 x 10 in. ( 71.8 x 27.3 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Figure: Spanish-American war soldier
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Graef
Object Number:
1954.165
Marks:
inscriptions: signed on proper left side of base: "COPYRIGHT 1904/ BY ALLEN G. NEWMAN/SCULPTOR"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1904
eMuseum Object ID:
29024
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)
Classification:
Date:
1917
Medium:
Plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 3 9/16 x 1/2 in. ( 13.3 x 9 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Bas-relief portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Medallic Art Company
Object Number:
1953.199
Marks:
inscriptions: across bottom: "MALVINA"
inscribed: at proper left side: "EMC/MCMXVI"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1917
eMuseum Object ID:
29020
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Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Classification:
Date:
1950
Medium:
Red-brown painted plaster with gold tones
Dimensions:
Overall: 43 x 30 x 19 1/4 in. ( 109.2 x 76.2 x 48.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait bust
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1954.26
Marks:
inscriptions: top of base proper left side: "Hoffman"
Gallery Label:
The Hindu religious leader was born in Calcutta and became a follower of Ramakrishna. In 1893 he came to the United States and here and in Europe founded the Vedanta movement, which fused several eastern and western philosophies and attracted a sizable international following. He died in a monastery near Calcutta.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
29016
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Unidentified woman
Classification:
Date:
Mid-19th century
Medium:
White marble
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. ( 31.8 x 21.6 x 14 cm )
Description:
Portrait bust.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Samuel Willet Comstock
Object Number:
1944.190
Gallery Label:
Given by donor's father, William Ogilvie Comstock (1815-1883) to his wife, Margaret Eliot (Lamb) Comstock, married in 1856.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
28978
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1887
Medium:
Painted plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 16 x 12 1/2 in. ( 75.6 x 40.6 x 31.8 cm )
Description:
Portrait (full-length).
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1937.35
Marks:
signed: proer left front corner of base: "JOHN ROGERS/NY"
inscribed: front of base: "HENRY WARD BEECHER"
Bibliography:
"The Fine Arts," The Critic, New York, Vol. 7, No. 182, June 25, 1887, p. 322.
Partridge, William Ordway, "John Rogers, The Peoples Sculptor," The New England Magazine, Feb., 1896, Vol. XIII, No. 6, pp. 705-21.
Smith, Mrs. and Mrs. Chetwood, Rogers Groups: Thought and Wrought by John Rogers, Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1934, pp.96-7.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, pp. 108, 134, 212, 216, 222, 256-7, 273, 275, 286-7, 295, 297.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 51-2.
Holzer, Harold, and Farber, Joseph, "The Sculpture of John Rogers," Antiques Magazine, April 1979, pp. 756-68.
Bleier, Paul and Meta, John Rogers Statuary, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp. 154-5.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1887
eMuseum Object ID:
28976
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Picket Guard
Classification:
Date:
1861
Medium:
Painted plaster with metal parts
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/4 x 10 x 7 7/8 in. ( 36.2 x 25.4 x 20 cm )
Description:
Genre figure.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1937.84
Marks:
inscribed: front of base: "THE PICKET GUARD"
inscribed: back of base, obscured: "PATENTED..."
Bibliography:
Articles, Scrapbooks of miscellaneous clippings, etc. about John Rogers, Vols. 1, 2, 3, New York Historical Society.
Unattributed Article, Fall 1861, New York Historical Society, Miscellaneous Rogers Materials, Box 6, ca. 1862.
Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, Dec. 6, 1861, p. 2.
"Literature and Art," The Home Journal, New York, Dec. 21, 1961, p.3.
"Fine Arts," The Evening Post, New York, Oct. 16, 1862, p.2.
The Evening Post, New York, Nov. 8, 1862, p.1.
Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, Nov. 10, 1862, p. 2.
Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, Dec. 1, 1862, p. 1.
Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, April 28, 1865, p. 2.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, pp. 595-7.
Wells, Samuel R., ed., "John Rogers, the Sculptor," American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, New York, September, 1869, pp. 329-30.
Barck, Dorothy, "Rogers Group in the Museum of the New-York Historical Society," New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVI, No. 3, October, 1932, p. 74.
Smith, Mrs. and Mrs. Chetwood, Rogers Groups: Thought and Wrought by John Rogers, Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1934, pp.64-5.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, pp. 62, 90-1, 98-9, 131, 139-40, 148, 150, 177, 185-6, 198-201, 294, 299, 301, 304.
Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968, pp. 357-366.
Wallace, David H., "The Art of John Rogers: So Real and So True," American Art Journal, November, 1972, pp. 59-70.
Holzer, Harold, and Farber, Joseph, "The Sculpture of John Rogers," Antiques Magazine, April 1979, pp. 756-768.
Bleier, Paul and Meta, John Rogers Statuary, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp. 66-9.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1861
eMuseum Object ID:
28975
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Classification:
Date:
Winter 1831
Medium:
Marble
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 1/2 x 17 3/4 x 11 in. ( 69.8 x 45.1 x 27.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait bust
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Prosper Guerry
Object Number:
1939.10
Marks:
paper label: on back: "New York Hist. Soc. 210.63"
Gallery Label:
The bust was executed in Paris while Greenough was working there temporarily in the winter of 1831. James Fenimore Cooper, a friend of Greeneough's, was instrumental in arranging the sitting of this famous portrait because he believed that the importance of this commission would have a great effect on a Greenough, whom he considered his protégé.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1831
eMuseum Object ID:
28938
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
Highlight:
Display this item in the highlights
Date:
1916-1922
Medium:
Painted plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 1/2 x 25 1/4 x 28 in. ( 82.6 x 64.1 x 71.1 cm )
Description:
Portrait (full-length)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. William Penn Cresson (Margaret French)
Object Number:
1954.164
Gallery Label:
This statuette, made in 1916, is the model for the colossal marble statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, of which Henry Bacon was the architect.
From this statuette French made a model twelve feet high which was placed in the memorial. Both French and Bacon agreed it was much too small, so photographs eighteen and twenty fee tall were made and set up on the site. The sculptor and the architect agreed that the great pillared hall required the heroic size of twenty feet. The twenty-foot statue was completed in 1919 and installed in the Memorial the following year. The dedication took place on May 30, 1922.
Provenance:
Mrs. William Penn Cresson (Margaret French), daughter of the artist
-original marble cut by Piccirilli brothers, NY for the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1922
eMuseum Object ID:
28923
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Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. (1881-1939)
Classification:
Date:
1937
Medium:
Ochre patiniated bronze with brass and velvet frame
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 15/16 x 9 9/16 x 1 1/2 in. ( 32.9 x 24.3 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Bas-relief portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Eunice G. Rand
Object Number:
1949.252
Marks:
inscriptions: signed under proper left shoulder: "PAUL MANSHIP/1937 Sc."
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (d. 1928), the transportation, real estate, and diamond magnate.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1937
eMuseum Object ID:
28913
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)
Classification:
Date:
January 8, 1925
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 9 in. ( 36.5 x 19 x 22.9 cm )
Description:
Death mask
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1949.168
Marks:
inscriptions: on proper left side of base: "GEORGE BELLOWS JANUARY 8 1925 CALDER"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
28909
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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