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    		• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus,
     
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    		• Richardson, H. H.,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Ames, Oakes
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Ames, Oliver
     
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    Ames Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, sculptor.
    Richardson, H. H., 1838-1886, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Ames Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1882.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Reliefs: sandstone; Pyramid: mortared granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Reliefs: approx. 9 ft. x 9 ft. x 16 in.; Pyramid: approx. 60 x 61 x 63 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Carved on north face of pyramid:) IN MEMORY/OF OAKES AMES/AND OLIVER AMES (East face, Oakes Ames:) BORN/JANUARY/10, 1804/MAY 8/1873/ A (inscribed within circle) (West face, Oliver Ames:) BORN NO/VEMBER/1807/DIED/ MARCH 7/1877 signed
    Description: 
    Step pyramid of mortared granite blocks with two bas-reliefs portraying on East side, Oakes Ames; and on West side: Oliver Ames. Both portraits are bust length, three-quarter views.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Ames, Oakes -- Bust
    Portrait male -- Ames, Oliver -- Bust
    Architecture -- Monument -- Pyramid
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Wyoming
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by State of Wyoming, Wyoming State Museum, Barrett Building, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002
    Located 1/2 miles South of Interstate 80, near the summit between Cheyenne & Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming
    Remarks: 
    The Ames brothers were major investors in Credit Mobiler of America, the construction company building the transcontinental railroad. The sculpture was designed by Henry Hobson Richards; Augustus Saint-Gaudens was commissioned to create the bas-reliefs. The sculpture was constructed in 1882 near the summit between Laramie and Cheyenne next to railroad tracks. In 1901, the railroad was rerouted three and one half miles south of the monument.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Wyoming survey, 1993.
    Greenthal, Kathryn, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 99.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Greenthal, Kathryn, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 98.
    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 WY000010
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