Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     Return to results > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Newman, Allen George,     History -- United States     Figure male -- Full length     Occupation -- Military     Dress -- Uniform     Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Rhinebeck     Sculpture

Doughboy, (sculpture). Artist:  Newman, Allen George, 1875-1940, sculptor. Title:  Doughboy, (sculpture). Dates:  1919. Dedicated May 31, 1973. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 9 ft. (to tip of bayonet: 11 ft. 3 in.). x Diam. approx. 4 1/2 ft.; Base: approx. H. 5 ft. Inscription:  (Vertical face of base, on rear:) (copyright symbol) by Allen G. Newman A-N-A/sculptor/1919 (Plaque on cement base:) They died that we might live. Honorable DeWitt Gurnell. World War II signed Description:  Figure of a World War I soldier, in uniform, standing with proper right hand clasping cartridge belt; proper left hand holding rifle strap. He stands, with proper right leg slightly flexed, head slightly tilted downward. A canteen hangs on the back of right hip from cartridge belt; a rifle with fixed bayonet is over his proper left shoulder. A gas mask hangs on his chest. The sculpture stands atop a granite base. Subject:  History -- United States -- World War I Figure male -- Full length Occupation -- Military -- Soldier Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Rhinebeck Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Village of Rhinebeck, 76 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, New York 12572 Located DeWitt Gurnell Park, Corner of Center and East Market Streets, Rhinebeck, New York Remarks:  The former village historian and Justice of the Peace, DeWitt Gurnell, bought the sculpture from William Perry of Nyack New York, who had bought it from the artist's son, Thomas A. Newman. DeWitt Gurnell then offered the sculpture as a gift to the Village of Rhinebeck. On Memorial Day, May 31, 1973, the sculpture was dedicated in honor of Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was originally installed at the corner of Center and Market Streets in Rhinebeck, but was moved to its current site in 1999 following conservation treatment. Originally, the sculpture rested on a concrete slab, but when the sculpture was installed in its new location, a new granite base was provided. Conservation:  Treated 1999 April-May. Coryat Casting Co. Inc. (Rhinebeck, NY). Treatment report is on file with conservator and owner. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993. Isabel M. P. Coryat (Coryat Casting Co., Rhinebeck, NY), 1993. SOS Conservation Notification Report, 2000. 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 NY000542   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NY000542 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact