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    		• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus,
     
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    		• Grimes, Frances,
     
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    		• White, Stanford,
     
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    		• McKim, Charles Follen,
     
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    		• Portrait Male -- Brooks, Phillips
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Religion -- New Testament
     
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    		• Emblem -- Cross
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
     
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    Phillips Brooks, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, sculptor.
    Grimes, Frances, 1869-1963, sculptor.
    White, Stanford, 1853-1906, architect.
    McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909, architect.
    Title: 
    Phillips Brooks, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned 1893. 1907-10.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite; Niche: marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: heroic; Base: approx. 5 x 11 x 9 ft.; Niche: approx. 17 ft. x 14 ft. 1 in. x 38 in.
    Inscription: 
    AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (On front of base, in bronze lettering:) PHILLIPS BROOKS/PREACHER OF THE WORD OF GOD/LOVER OF MANKIND/BORN IN BOSTON AD MDCCCXXXV/DIED IN BOSTON AD MDCCCXCIII/THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY/HIS FELLOW CITIZENS AD MCMX signed
    Description: 
    The bronze figures of Bishop Brooks and Christ stand in a domed marble niche adorned in the rear with a large cross. Bishop Brooks, dressed in ecclesiastical robes, stands with his proper left arm resting on a lectern and his raised proper right hand pointing toward the sky. A robed figure of Christ stand behind his proper left shoulder. The figures stand on a square base with a semicircle of columns forming a narrow niche around them.
    Subject: 
    Portrait Male -- Brooks, Phillips -- Full length
    Occupation -- Religion -- Bishop
    Religion -- New Testament -- Christ
    Emblem -- Cross
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boylston & Clarendon Streets, Boston, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was funded by the Trinity Church congregation and the cost was eighty thousand dollars.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA5077, 1989.
    Monumental News, Oct. 1902; Feb. and April 1910.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Monumental News, April, 1910, pg. 285.
    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 77006132
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