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Rhind, John Massey,
Gorham Manufacturing Company,
Portrait male -- Clinton, George
Object -- Weapon
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Kingston
Sculpture
George Clinton, (
sculpture
).
Artist:
Rhind, John Massey, 1860-1936, sculptor.
Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
Title:
George Clinton, (
sculpture
).
Dates:
Cast 1898. Rededicated June 1950.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture
: bronze; Base: Ulster County bluestone.
Dimensions:
Approx. H. 11 ft.
Inscription:
J. MASSEY-RHIND SCULPTOR / GORHAM F.'F.'G' CO FOUNDERS (On bronze plaque on front of base:) THESE STATUES WERE GIVEN TO/THE CITY OF
KINGSTON
/BY/EMILY CRANE CHADBOURNE/JUNE 4TH, 1950 signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
A standing portrait of George Clinton holding his hat in his proper right hand and a walking stick in his proper left hand. The
sculpture
is installed atop a square stone base.
Subject:
Portrait male
--
Clinton, George
--
Full length
Object
--
Weapon
--
Sword
Object Type:
Outdoor
Sculpture
--
New
York
--
Kingston
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by State of
New
York
, Park and Recreation Department, 467 Broadway,
Kingston
,
New
York
12401
Located Academy Green,
Kingston
,
New
York
Provenance:
Formerly located Exchange Court Building, 52 Broadway, Cornice,
New
York
,
New
York
1898.
Remarks:
In 1898, portraits of Peter Stuyvesant, Henry Hudson, George Clinton, and General James Wolfe were installed on the facade of the Exchange Court Building in
New
York
City. When the building was remodeled, the sculptures were taken to a Brooklyn junk yard where three, Stuyvesant (IAS 76002638), Hudson (IAS NY001136), and Clinton (IAS NY001135) were discovered by Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne who had read about their fate in a
New
York
Times article. She persuaded
Kingston
,
New
York
officials to accept the three sculptures and landscape architect, Alfred Gieffert, Jr. mounted them on
new
Ulster County bluestone bases in a newly designed setting in Academy Green. The fourth portrait from the Exchange Court Building, that of General James Wolfe, hero of the siege of Quebec, ended up at the home of John Cunningham in Glen Falls,
New
York
, and was later relocated to Calgary by a Canadian group.
IAS files contain articles from The
New
York
Times Magazine, Aug. 21, 1943; The
New
York
Times, Feb. 27, 1980; the National
Sculpture
Review 1 (1952): pg. 9; and an excerpt from the Proceedings of the Ulster County Historical Society, 1947-1953, pg. 54-56 --all of which vary slightly in recounting the history of the sculptures.
References:
Index of American
Sculpture
, University of Delaware, 1985
Ulster County Society, Bevier House, Marbletown,
New
York
, 1977.
Save
Outdoor
Sculpture
,
New
York
survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Related Works:
Companion to: 76002638.
Companion to: NY001136.
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 NY001135
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