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    		• Piccirilli, Attilio,
     
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    		• Magonigle, Harold Van Buren,
     
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    		• Keck, Charles,
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Allegory -- Civic
     
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    		• Allegory -- Place
     
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    		• Allegory -- Other
     
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    		• Allegory -- Place
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- New York
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Maine Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Piccirilli, Attilio, 1866-1945, sculptor.
    Magonigle, Harold Van Buren, 1867-1935, architect.
    Keck, Charles, 1875-1951, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Maine Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1901-1913. Dedicated May 30, 1913.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: Gilded bronze figure group; Base: Tennessee pink marble pylon with marble figures.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 16 ft. 6 in. x 15 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft.; Base: approx. H. 44 ft. x 59 ft. 8 in. x 70 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Front right side of lower base:) Attilio Piccirilli Sculptor (Front left side of lower base:) Harold Van Buren Magonigle FAIA Architect (Front of base:) TO/THE VALIANT SEAMEN/WHO PERISHED IN THE MAINE/BY FATE UNWARNED/IN DEATH UNAFRAID/MDCCCXCVII/MCMXII (Rear of base:) TO/THE FREEMEN/WHO DIED IN THE/WAR WITH SPAIN/THAT OTHERS/MIGHT BE FREE/MDCCCXCVII/MCMXII (Center of base, rear:) ERECTED THROUGH PUBLIC SUPSCRIPTION /BY THE NATIONAL MAINE MONUMENT COMMITTEE/JAMES GRANT WILSON - CHAIRMAN WILLIAM R. HEARST GEORGE F. SHRADY JOHN W. KELLER J. EDWARD SIMMONS (list of the names of crew members appears of the left side of the base and list of the officers appears on the right side of the base.) (Bronze plaque by Charles Keck on left rear of base:) MEMORIAM /USS MAINE/DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR/FEBRUARY 15TH 1898/THIS TABLET IS CAST FROM METAL RECOVERED FROM THE USS MAINE. (PATRIOTISM/DEVOTION) (Bronze plaque, rear of base:) BY CHARLES KECK, 1913, INSTALLED 1936 signed
    Description: 
    A massive pylon base surmounted by a bronze representation of Columbia Triumphant as a female figure in a seashell pulled by three seahorses. At the base of the pylon is Victory kneeling on a ship's prow. He holds aloft two olive wreaths. Behind him, Peace, a robed female figure seemingly in a trance, stretches out her arms and forms the apex of the triangular group arranged below her. To her right is a figure representing Courage and to her left is Fortitude. On the rear of the monument stands Justice, with eyes closed and arms raised, flanked by figures representing the Warrior and History. Located at either side of the base are the reclining figures representing the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Allegory -- Civic -- War
    Allegory -- Place -- Oceans
    Allegory -- Other -- Triumph
    Allegory -- Place -- America
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- New York
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation, The Arsenal - Central Park, New York, New York 10021
    Located Central Park, 59th Street & Columbus Circle, New York, New York
    Remarks: 
    The memorial cost $100,000. The design won out over forty others submitted in a 1901 competition for a memorial to the 260 sailors who died when the battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, an incident which touched off the Spanish-American War. A study of the head of Courage was given to the City of New York by Piccirilli in 1945 and is now located in the Art Commission rotunda in City Hall. In 1980 the monument was restored by the Department of Parks and Recreation. For related information see: Ottavino, Kate, "Restoration of Maine Monument," Master's thesis, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, 1984. The bronze memorial plaque installed on the back of the base in 1936 was created by Charles Keck in 1913 (see IAS record 76002928).
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Gayle, Margot & Michele Cohen, "Guide to Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture," New York: Prentice Hall, 1988, pg. 238-239.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, NY0290, 1989.
    Monumental News, Sept. 1910; Jan. 1913.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York, New York survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Gayle, Margot & Michele Cohen, "Guide to Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture," New York: Prentice Hall, 1988, pg. 238.
    Bronx Times, July 15, 1999, pg. 7.
    Related Works: 
    For study see: 76002945.
    Related to: 76003528.
    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 76003527
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