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Monumental Bronze Company,
Homage -- McMinn, James W.
Homage -- McMinn, Alice
Homage -- McMinn, Louise
Figure female -- Full length
Dress -- Historic
Object -- Written Matter
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Watertown
Gravestone
Sculpture
McMinn, (
sculpture
).
Artist:
Monumental Bronze Company, founder.
Title:
McMinn, (
sculpture
).
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Figure: zinc; Base: zinc.
Dimensions:
Figure: approx. 6 ft. x 16 in. x 16 in.; Base: approx. 11 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.
Inscription:
(On front of base:) He Has Wandered Into An/Unknown Land and Left us/Dreaming How Very Fair it/must be since/He Lingers there (On upper back of base, raised letters:) M (On midsection of back of base, raised letters:) ALICE/McMINN/DIED/AUG 14, 1896/AGE/30 YEARS (On lower back of base, raised letters:) McMINN (On upper side of base, raised letters:) M (On midsection of side of base, raised letters:) JAMES W. McMINN/DIED/AUG. 13, 1886/AGE/63 YEARS/3 MONTHS (On lower side of base, raised letters:) McMINN (On other side of base:) LOUISE McMINN/DIED/MARCH 28, 1902/AGE/78 years 8 mos./28 days unsigned
Description:
A female figure, dressed in classical garb, stands pointing upward with her proper right hand. She holds a book at her side in her proper left hand. The figure is placed atop an inscribed multitiered base that is decorated at its midsection with fluted Corinthian columns and at its top with peaked projections.
Subject:
Homage
--
McMinn, James W.
Homage
--
McMinn, Alice
Homage
--
McMinn, Louise
Figure female
--
Full length
Dress
--
Historic
--
Classical Dress
Object
--
Written Matter
--
Book
Object Type:
Outdoor
Sculpture
--
New
York
--
Watertown
Gravestone
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by North
Watertown
Cemetery Association, 811 Bradley Street,
Watertown
,
New
York
13601
Located North
Watertown
Cemetery, Southern section,
Watertown
,
New
York
References:
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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 NY000441
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NY000441
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