Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
Return to results
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
MacMonnies, Frederick William,
Emile Diebitch Inc.,
Carrere & Hastings,
Kunst Foundry,
Figure group -- Nude
Allegory -- Civic
Allegory -- Other
Allegory -- Quality
Allegory -- Place
State of Being -- Emotion
State of Being -- Evil
State of Being -- Death
Animal -- Dog
Animal -- Bird
Object -- Weapon
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City
Relief
Sculpture
Greek Temple Monument War Memorial, (sculpture).
Artist:
MacMonnies, Frederick William, 1863-1937, sculptor.
Emile Diebitch Inc., fabricator.
Carrere & Hastings, designer.
Kunst Foundry, founder.
Title:
Greek Temple Monument War Memorial, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
World War I Memorial, (sculpture).
Liberty in Distress, (sculpture).
Dates:
Temple installed 1922 or 1923. Liberty: 1928. Liberty: installed 1929.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Liberty: bronze; Base: Vermont green marble.
Dimensions:
Temple: approx. Diam. 124 ft.; Liberty: approx. H. 9 ft.; Base: approx. H. 5 ft.
Inscription:
(On base, right:) Macmonnies 1928 (On base, left:) CAST FROM/THE WORKING MODEL (On base, rear:) KUNST FOUNDRY, N.Y.C. (Inside temple frieze, incised lettering:) THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN 1922 BY THE
CITY
OF
ATLANTIC
CITY
IN HONOR OF THOSE OF HER CITIZENS WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR 1917-1918 (Outside temple frieze, incised lettering: list of World War I battles)
(On plaque on rotunda outside wall facing ocean, raised lettering:)
CITY
OF
ATLANTIC
CITY
/IN COMMEMORATION OF THE RESTORATION OF THE GREEK TEMPLE MONUMENT/MAY 12, 1988 (On columns, list of committee, developer and councilmen names) (Across bottom:) THIS PROJECT WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY DAVID R. ZARIN/UNDER THE 1% FOR ART PROGRAM INTEGRATING ART WITH ARCHITECTURE FOR
CITY
BEAUTIFICATION unsigned
Description:
A circular Greek temple with 16 Doric columns and centered in the rotunda, a sculptural group representing Liberty. The sculpture depicts a nude Liberty screaming in victory and sadness as the bodies of war dead fall and pile around her feet. The body of a nude male hangs over her proper right leg. She holds a broken sword in her proper left hand, as a dog, (representing Fidelity) and a rooster (representing France) stand at her feet. The sculpture is mounted upon an octagonal base with a wreath in relief on every other side. The temple is set upon a stepped base.
Subject:
Figure group -- Nude
Allegory -- Civic -- Liberty
Allegory -- Other -- Triumph
Allegory -- Quality -- Faith
Allegory -- Place -- France
State of Being -- Emotion -- Sorrow
State of Being -- Evil -- War
State of Being -- Death
Animal -- Dog
Animal -- Bird -- Chicken
Object -- Weapon -- Sword
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture --
New
Jersey
--
Atlantic
City
Relief
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by
City
of
Atlantic
City
,
Fine
Arts
Commission
Garden Pier Cultural
Arts
Center,
Atlantic
City
,
New
Jersey
08401
Located Intersection of O'Donnell Parkway & Albany Avenue,
Atlantic
City
,
New
Jersey
Remarks:
The idea for a memorial originated in 1907, when the
City
contracted with Carrrere & Hastings architectural firm to lay out a "
city
beautiful" plan. World War I delayed implementation plans and the temple was not built until 1922 or 1923. The temple (minus the Liberty figure) cost $93,039 and was built by Emile Diebitch, Inc., with modifications to the Carrere & Hastings design. Conflicting dates are given for temple installation. The interior frieze inscription provides erection date of 1922; but Frank Butler's "The Book of the Boardwalk," Haines Co., 1952, pg. 121 reports that "temple was erected in 1923." MacMonnies created the figure of Liberty which was not installed until 1929. The figure of Liberty cost $19,000; its base, designed by Emile Diebitch, cost $3,200.
The temple and sculpture were restored in 1988 under the direction of the
Atlantic
City
Fine
Arts
Commission
with funding from the One Percent for
Arts
Program. IAS files contain excerpt from Frank Butler's "The Book of the Boardwalk," Haines Co., 1952, pg. 121-122; and related information from the
Atlantic
City
Fine
Arts
Commission
.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture,
New
Jersey
survey, 1995.
Smart, Mary, "A Flight with Fame: the life and art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon," Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1996, no. 97.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Smart, Mary, "A Flight with Fame: the life and art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon," Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1996, pg. 309.
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 NJ000412
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NJ000412
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact