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    		• Adams, Herbert,
     
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    		• Griffith, Vincent,
     
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    		• Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Channing, William Ellery
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Object -- Written Matter
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    William Ellery Channing, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Adams, Herbert, 1858-1945, sculptor.
    Griffith, Vincent, designer.
    Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    William Ellery Channing, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Modeled 1899-1902. Cast 1903. Dedicated June 1, 1903.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base and steps: pink Milford granite; Niche and canopy: Tennessee marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. 5 in. x 45 in. x 46 in.; Base: approx. 25 ft. x 24 ft. x 86 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On sculpture, proper right side of bronze base:) HERBERT ADAMS Sc. 1902 (On sculpture, proper left side of bronze base:) HENRY BONNARD BRONZE Co. FOUNDERS N.Y. 1903 (On front of marble base, below sculpture:) WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING/MDCCLXXX-MDCCXLII (On front of marble base, left side:) HE PREACHED WITH/SPIRITUAL POWER/AND LED A GREAT/ADVANCE TOWARD THE/CHRISTIAN IDEALS (On front of marble base, right side:) HE BREATHED INTO/THEOLOGY A HUMANE/SPIRIT AND PR-/CLAIMED ANEW THE/DIVINITY OF MAN (On rear of marble base:) I SEE THE/MARKS OF GOD IN THE/HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BUT/HOW MUCH MORE IN A LIBERAL/INTELLECT IN MAGNANIMITY IN/UNCONQUERABLE RECTITUTDE/IN A PHILANTHROPY WHICH/FORGIVES EVERY WRONG/AND WHICH NEVER DISPAIRS/OF THE CAUSE OF CHRIST/AND HUMAN VIRTUE I DO/AND I MUST REVERENCE/HUMAN NATURE. I BLESS IT/FOR ITS ACHIEVEMENTS/IN SCIENCE AND IN ART AND/STILL MORE FOR ITS EXAMPLES /OF HEROIC AND SAINTLY VIRTUE/THESE ARE MARKS OF A DIVINE ORIGIN AND PLEDGES OF/A CELESTIAL INHERITANCE/AND I THANK GOD THAT MY/OWN LOT IS BOUND UP WITH/THAT OF THE HUMAN RACE/WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING/THE GIFT OF/JOHN FOSTER signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A portrait of William Ellery Channing, standing holding the Bible in his proper left hand and clutching the folds of his ecclesiastical robes to his chest with his proper right hand. The sculpture rests atop a granite base that is installed in a marble niche beneath a marble canopy. The monument is approached by two granite steps.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Channing, William Ellery -- Full length
    Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy
    Object -- Written Matter -- Book
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201
    Located Boston Public Garden, Arlington & Boylston Streets, Boston, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), founder of Unitarianism, served as pastor of the Federal Street Church (later to become the Arlington Street Church) from 1802 until his death in 1842. The sculpture was paid for with $30,000 provided in the will of John Foster who stipulated that the sculpture should be installed in the Boston Public Garden across the street from the Federal Street Church. The niche was designed by Vincent Giffith.
    IAS files contain excerpts from the Boston Art Department, "Annual Report," 1899-1925, pg. 25; Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman's "Other Statues of Boston," Boston, MA: State Street Trust Company, 1947, pg. 30-31; and Walter Muir Whitehill's "Boston Statues," Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1970, pg. 75. IAS files also contain related clipping from Boston Daily Globe (May 19, 1899, pg. 9) discussing contract award and selection of "young New York sculptor" Herbert Adams.
    References: 
    Ambler, Louise Todd & Marilyn Gage Hyson, unpublished checklist, 2001-2003.
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993.
    Boston Art Commission, 1991.
    "Public Art in Boston," Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1975.
    Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 15.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA0162, 1989.
    Monumental News, Aug. 1903, pg. 475-476.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 15.
    Monumental News, Oct. 1902; Aug. 1903.
    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 77000051
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