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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Brooks, Richard Edwin,     J. J. Horgan,     Gruet,     Portrait male -- Cass, Thomas     Occupation -- Military     Dress -- Uniform     Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston     Sculpture

Colonel Thomas Cass, (sculpture). Artist:  Brooks, Richard Edwin, 1865-1919, sculptor. J. J. Horgan, fabricator. Gruet, founder. Title:  Colonel Thomas Cass, (sculpture). Dates:  Cast 1899. Dedicated September 14, 1899. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: Red Beach, Maine granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. x 2 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 4 in.; Base: approx. 6 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. Inscription:  (On proper right side of sculpture, bronze base:) R. E. Brooks . Sculpt. 1899 (On rear of sculpture:) E. Gruet Jne Fondeur Paris (On front of base:) THOMAS CASS/COL NINTH MASS/INFANTRY USV/FELL AT MALVERN/HILL VIRGINIA/JULY FIRST 1862 (On rear of base:) ERECTED BY THE CITY OF BOSTON/IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS/AND MEN OF THE NINTH REG/MASS VOLUNTEERS/ORGANIZED MAY 3, 1961/MUSTERED OUT JUNE 21, 1864 signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  A standing portrait of Thomas Cass with his arms folded across his chest. He is dressed in his Civil War uniform that originally included a sword which is now missing. The sculpture rests on a square base adorned with a bronze wreath and a bronze palm branch on the front upper left corner. Subject:  Portrait male -- Cass, Thomas -- Full length Occupation -- Military -- Colonel Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201 Located Boston Public Garden, Boylston Street Mall, Boston, Massachusetts Remarks:  Thomas Cass (1822-1862) was born in Ireland, but moved to Boston and served as Colonel in the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry U.S. Volunteers, a regiment of Irish volunteers known as the "Fighting Ninth." He was killed at Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862. The sculpture was secured through the efforts of Mayor Joseph Quincy and was funded through the Jonathan Phillips Fund. It replaces an earlier granite memorial to Cass. IAS files contain an excerpt from Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman's "Some Statues of Boston," Boston, MA: State Street Trust Co., 1946, pg. 20-21; "City of Boston Art Department Records, 1899-1925," pg. 22-23; and Walter Muir Whitehill's "Boston Statues," Bare, MA: Barre Publishers, 1970, pg. 59-60. References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985 Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 14. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993. National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA5057, 1989. Monumental News, Dec. 1889, pg. 242. Illustration:  Image on file. Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 14. 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 76005288   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76005288 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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