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    		• Salvatore, Victor,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Cooper, James Fenimore
     
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    		• Occupation -- Writer
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Cooperstown
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    James Fenimore Cooper, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Salvatore, Victor, 1884-1965, sculptor.
    Title: 
    James Fenimore Cooper, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1940.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: probably granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. larger than life size; Base: approx. 42 x 52 x 68 in.
    Inscription: 
    Victor Salvatore (Front of base:) JAMES/FENIMORE/COOPER/1789 1851 (Bronze plaque on west side of base, raised lettering:) ON THIS SITE STOOD/OTSEGO HALL/BUILT BY WILLIAM COOPER/THE FOUNDER OF COOPERSTOWN, IN 1798/THE HOME OF/JAMES FENIMORE COOPER/WHERE HE LIVED FROM 1834/TO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH/SEPTEMBER 14TH 1851./DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1853. signed
    Description: 
    A portrait of novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) sitting on a block with his legs crossed, proper right over proper left leg. In his proper right hand he holds a cane. His proper left arm is draped over his proper right knee and in his proper left hand he holds a wide-brimmed hat. He wears a long overcoat, a shirt with ruffled cuffs, and a bow tie. The sculpture rests on a rectangular base of polished stone.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Cooper, James Fenimore -- Full length
    Occupation -- Writer -- Novelist
    Dress -- Accessory -- Cane
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Cooperstown
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Leatherstocking Corporation, 19 Main Street, Cooperstown, New York 13326
    Located Cooper Park, Intersection of Main Street & Fair Street, Cooperstown, New York
    Remarks: 
    The site of the sculpture was once Otsego Hall, the home built by William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown, in 1798.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    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 NY000483
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