art.wikisort.org - SculptureSeventh Regiment Memorial is an outdoor bronze sculpture honoring the members of that regiment whose lives were forfeited during the Civil War. The statue was created by John Quincy Adams Ward and the base was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Although the statue is dated 1869 the monument was not unveiled until June 22, 1874.
Memorial and sculpture in Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Description and history
Ward likely received the commission in 1867, the rest of funding by the Seventh Regiment Monument Association, and by the spring of 1868 he had model prepared. Initially Hunt had envisioned and designed a much larger monument, one with at least five figures, seen as being a part of a "Warrior Gate" to Central Park. However the park's architects, Olmsted and Vaux, had already clashed with Hunt over matters of aesthetics[1] with the result that Hunt's grand scheme of a series of showy Beaux-Arts entrances to the park was reduced to the Seventh Regiment Memorial.[2]
The art historian E. Wayne Craven considers the work "a failure", even thought it is a work of art, stating,"neither the 'Shakespeare' nor the 'Seventh Regiment Soldier' were portrait statues in the usual sense, and therein lies the explanation for their failures. Ward often lacked the vision to create a successful imaginary portrait, and his images of men who could actually stand before him were, as a rule, much stronger as works of art."[3] The soldier in the monument was modeled by actor, and veteran of the Regiment Steele MacKaye, who wore his own uniform to pose in.[4]
References
- New York City portal
- Visual arts portal
- Hall, Lee, Olmsted's America: An "Unpractical Man and His Vision of Civilization, A Bulfinch Press Book, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1995 p. 94.
- Stein, Susan R., editor, The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt, Lewis I. Sharp, Richard Morris Hunt and His Influence on American Beaux-Arts Sculpture, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986, pp. 126–128.
- Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York 1968 p. 250.
- Sharp, Lewis I., John Quincy Adams Ward: Dean of American Sculpture, with Catalogue Raisonné, University of Delaware Press, Newark, 1985 p. 177.
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- Arsenal
- Ballplayers House
- Belvedere Castle
- Bethesda Terrace and Fountain
- Blockhouse
- Bridges
- Carousel
- Central Park Casino (demolished)
- Cherry Hill Fountain
- The Dairy
- Delacorte Theater
- Diana Ross Playground
- Fort Clinton
- Heckscher Playground
- Lasker Rink
- Mall
- Marionette Theatre
- McGown's Pass Tavern (demolished)
- Richard Morris Hunt Memorial
- Rumsey Playfield
- Tavern on the Green
- Victorian Gardens
- Wollman Rink
- Zoo
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- Fifth Avenue–59th Street
- 59th Street–Columbus Circle
- 72nd Street
- 81st Street
- 86th Street
- 96th Street
- 103rd Street
- Cathedral Parkway–110th Street
- Central Park North–110th Street
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Notable figures |
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- Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
- Andrew Haswell Green
- Jacob Wrey Mould
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Ignaz Anton Pilat
- Calvert Vaux
- Egbert Ludovicus Viele
- George E. Waring Jr.
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- Barry
- Mandarin Patinkin
- Pale Male
- Pattycake
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- Birdwatching incident
- Conservancy
- Jogger case
- Medical Unit
- Popular culture
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Key: No longer extant or on public display |
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