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    		• French, Daniel Chester,
     
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    		• Walker, C. H.,
     
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    		• Gruet,
     
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    		• Homage -- Milmore, Martin
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Religion -- Angel
     
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    		• Allegory -- Death
     
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    		• Occupation -- Art
     
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    		• Object -- Art Tool
     
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    		• Object -- Art Tool
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
     
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    Martin Milmore Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931, sculptor.
    Walker, C. H., architect.
    Gruet, founder.
    Title: 
    Martin Milmore Memorial, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Milmore Memorial, (sculpture).
    Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor, (sculpture).
    Angel of Death and the Sculptor, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Modeled 1889-1891. Cast 1891-1893.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Relief: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Relief: approx. W. 8 ft. 4 in. x D. 2 ft. 6 in.; Base: approx. W. 29 ft. 6 in. x D. 3 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On left side of relief:) D.C. French/stor. 1891 (On right side of relief:) E. GRUET JNE/FONDEUR.PARIS (On front of base, below relief:) MILMORE signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    The Milmore Memorial consists of a wide granite exedra adorned with a large bronze relief depicting an angel holding lilies in her proper right hand and reaching out with her proper left hand to grasp the hand of a young sculptor hard at work on a relief of a Sphinx. The angel is almost fully three-dimensional as she emerges from the face of the relief to interact with the fully three-dimensional figure of the sculptor who faces her. A mallet is raised in the sculptor's proper right hand and a chisel is raised in his proper left hand. The angel has interrupted the sculptor's work by placing her hand between the sculptor's chisel and his relief. The sculptor, bracing his proper left knee against the relief, has stopped working and looks over at the angel. The relief is framed in granite and is flanked by two exedra benches. Two inscribed stone benches are located nearby.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Milmore, Martin
    Figure group
    Religion -- Angel
    Allegory -- Death
    Occupation -- Art -- Sculptor
    Object -- Art Tool -- Mallet
    Object -- Art Tool -- Chisel
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Relief
    Exedra
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02130
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Hanley Mausoleum, Cypress & Popular, Boston, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    The inscription on a bronze plaque embedded in the ground in front of the sculpture reads: DEATH AND THE SCULPTOR/"COME, STAY YOUR HAND," DEATH TO THE SCULPTOR CRIED,/"THOSE WHO ARE SLEEPING, HAVE NOT REALLY DIED./I AM THE ANSWER TO THE STONE YOUR FINGERS/HAVE CARVED, THE BAFFLING RIDDLE THAT STILL LINGERS,/SPHINX UNTO CURIOUS MEN. SO DO NOT FEAR/THIS GENTLE TOUCH. I HOLD DARK POPPIES HERE/WHOSE LANGUID LEAVES OF LETHARGY WILL BRING/DEEP SLEEP TO YOU, AND AN INCREDIBLE SPRING!/COME WITH YOUR SOUL, FROM EARTH'S STILL BLINDED HOUR,/MOUNT BY MY HAND THE HIGH, THE TIMELESS TOWER!/THROUGH ME THE NIGHT AND MORNING ARE MADE ONE,/YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, YOUR LONG VIGIL DONE./WHO AN I! ON FAR PATHS NO FOOT HAS TROD,/SOME CALL ME DEATH - BUT OTHERS CALL ME GOD."/Pepita Milmore. The inscription on a nearby bench reads: PEPITA/IT LIES WITH DEATH TO TAKE THE BEAUTY,/BUT NOT THE GRACIOUS MEMORY OF HER. The inscription on a second bench reads: MOTHER/IN LOVING MEMORY OF/MARY LOUISE LONGFELLOW MILMORE.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Richman, Michael, "Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1976, pg. 71-79.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA0166, 1989.
    Monumental News, Dec. 1894; Oct. 1905.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993.
    Antiques (Nov. 1998): pg. 697-703.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Richman, Michael, "Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1976, pg. 17 and 76.
    Antiques (Nov. 1998): pg. 700.
    Related Works: 
    See also: 76006056.
    See also: 76006057.
    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 76009557
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