Click here to loginLoginView my BookbagMy List - 0HelpHelp
 Search 
 Search Images 
 About 
   
KeywordBrowseCombinedHighlightsSearch HistoryAll Catalogs
Search:    Refine Search  Return to results
> You are only searching: Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
 
 Who else has...
 
  •  
    		• Johnson, Ben,
     
  •  
    		• Hill, Robert,
     
  •  
    		• Albright, Clifford,
     
  •  
    		• Henry Murray Company Monuments,
     
  •  
    		• Homage -- Courtenay, Mary I.
     
  •  
    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
  •  
    		• Dress -- Historic
     
  •  
    		• Object -- Flower
     
  •  
    		• Object -- Foliage
     
  •  
    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
     
  •  
    		• Gravestone
     
  •  
    		• Relief
     
  •  
    		• Door
     
  •  
    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Courtenay Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Johnson, Ben, sculptor.
    Hill, Robert, b. 1891, designer.
    Albright, Clifford, architect.
    Henry Murray Company Monuments, fabricator.
    Title: 
    The Courtenay Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1937.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Door: bronze; Mausoleum: light Barre granite, Vermont rubio marble, glass and leaded glass.
    Dimensions: 
    Overall: approx. 16 ft. 10 in. x 9 ft. 4 in. x 9 ft. 4 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Bottom, proper left:) ROBERT J MILL (sic) D/BEN JOHNSON SC (Top front of mausoleum, incised lettering:) COURTENAY signed
    Description: 
    An Art Nouveau style mausoleum with bronze doors depicting a shrouded woman standing with her proper left hand extended to the right door frame. Her eyes are closed and her proper right hand lifts her veil to expose her proper right profile. She wears a full-length, classical dress and behind her are friezes of pine branches and blooming lilies. A short stairway in front of the mausoleum leads up to the door and a pair of decorated vases or urns flanking the front of the mausoleum. The mausoleum is made of Barre light granite on the exterior and highly polished Vermont rubio marble on the interior. It has a decorative border around the top and in the rear there is a leaded glass window protected by additional glass.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Courtenay, Mary I.
    Figure female -- Full length
    Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
    Object -- Flower -- Lily
    Object -- Foliage -- Pine
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Gravestone
    Relief
    Door
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Lot 7657, Willow & White Oak, Boston, Massachusetts 02130
    Remarks: 
    The mausoleum is the burial site of Mary I. Courtenay of Boston.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts 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 MA000135
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    Smithsonian AmericanArt MuseumControl Number 
    Inventory of American SculptureMA000135Add Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact
    SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System