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    		• French, Daniel Chester,
     
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    		• Windrim, James H.,
     
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    		• Windrim, John T.,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Meade, George Gordon
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
     
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    The Smith Memorial: Major General George Gordon Meade, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931, sculptor.
    Windrim, James H., 1840-1919, architect.
    Windrim, John T., architect.
    Title: 
    The Smith Memorial: Major General George Gordon Meade, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Major General George Gordon Meade, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned May 6, 1898. Modeled Feb. 1899. Cast Dec. 1900.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 x 4 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. H. 38 ft. x Diam. 9 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Base of column, on both the east and west sides:) MEADE
    Description: 
    The Smith Memorial stands at the entrance to the west side of Fairmount Park and consists of two curving, neobaroque arches adorned with thirteen individual portrait sculptures (2 equestrians, 3 figures, and 8 busts); two eagles standing on globes; and architectural reliefs of 8 allegorical figures. The portrait of George Gordon Meade is one of two figures resting atop two tall columns located one on each side of the memorial (the other is Charles Grafly's portrait of Major General John Fulton Reynolds). Meade is dressed in his military uniform and stands with his proper left hand resting on the top of a sword which he holds vertically at his left side. His proper right arm is bent and in his hand he holds his binoculars at his waist. His binocular case is strapped across his chest and rests on his proper right side.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Meade, George Gordon -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Major General
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Dress -- Accessory -- Binoculars
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Coadministered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
    Coadministered by Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Located Fairmount Park, West side of park, North Concourse Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    Inscription on memorial reads: THIS/ MONUMENTAL MEMORIAL/ PRESENTED BY/ RICHARD SMITH/ TYPE FOUNDER/ OF PHILADELPHIA -/ IN MEMORY OF/ PENNSYLVANIANS WHO/ TOOK PART IN THE CIVIL WAR/ THEIR STRIFE WAS NOT FOR/ AGGRANDIZEMENT AND WHEN/ CONFLICT CEASED THE NORTH/ WITH THE SOUTH UNITED AGAIN/ TO ENJOY THE COMMON HERITAGE/ LEFT BY THE FATHERS OF OUR/ COUNTRY RESOLVING THAT/ THEREAFTER ALL OUR PEOPLE/ SHOULD DWELL TOGETHER/ IN UNITY.
    In 1891, Richard Smith (1821-1894), a wealthy Philadelphia electroplate and type founder, created a will which provided $500,000 for a memorial arch to be adorned with portraits of Pennsylvania's Civil War military and naval heroes. Smith deposited the model and designs for the memorial with the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Company and stipulated that John B. Gest, president of Fidelity, should handle his request; that the architectural designs and construction should be handled by Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim; and that the selection and supervision of sculptors for the specified portraits should be handled by the Fairmount Park Art Association. The will went into effect upon the death of Smith's wife in 1895, but it was not until 1897 that the Fairmount Park Art Association began work on selecting the sculptors. On May 8, 1898, the initial commissions were awarded, but it was not until 1912 that the last sculpture was installed.
    References: 
    Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986.
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 168-179.
    Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 208.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 176.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS PA000524
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