Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw, (sculpture).

Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw, (sculpture).

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, sculptor.

Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw, (sculpture).

Shaw Memorial, (sculpture).

1898. Cast 1901.

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Sculpture: plaster, painted; Base: wood.

Sculpture: approx. 11 x 14 x 36 ft.; Base: approx. 15 ft. x 18 ft. x 40 in.

Augustus Saint Gaudens (Below figures:) ROBERT SHAW GOULD KILLED WHILE LEADING THE ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER JULY TWENTY THIRD EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS MDCCCLXXXXVIII (Above horse's head:) OMNIA RELINQUIT/SERVARE REMPUBLICAM signed

Colossal plaster tablet, consisting of figures in high relief, with a portrait of Robert Gould Shaw on horse in foreground, with soldiers in background and an angel figure flying overhead. Colonel Shaw is depicted in campaign uniform and fatigue cap, seated on horse, with sword at his side in proper right hand. In the background are ranks of marching black soldiers. They carry bedrolls on their backpacks and are holding rifles over the shoulders. They are preceded by a drummer boy. An allegorical female angel figure floats above the figures, with her proper left hand extended outward and her proper right hand clasping laurel. Her head is turned downward; her drapery is horizontally arranged. The plaster cast is set within a wooden frame, part of a protective structure.

Portrait male -- Shaw, Robert Gould -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Colonel

Figure group -- Male

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Ethnic -- African American

Figure female -- Full length

Allegory -- Civic -- Peace

Object -- Foliage -- Laurel

Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Cornish

Administered by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia

On loan to National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565

Lent by Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, RR 3, Box 73, Cornish, New Hampshire 03745

Formerly located Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901.

Third and final version plaster cast of the Shaw Memorial, Boston Common (IAS record 76007839). The sculpture was exhibited at the Buffalo, New York Pan American Exposition of 1901 and remained on exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo until 1919. In 1997, the sculpture was placed on long-term loan to the National Gallery of Art. IAS files contain brochure "Augustis Saing-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachsuetts Fifty-foruth Regiment," National Gallery of Art, Sept. 21-Dec. 14, 1997. IAS files also contain related newspaper clipping, Washington Post, Sept. 22, 1997, pg. B1.

SAGA #1860.SAGA plaque reads: THE SHAW MEMORIAL SAINT GAUDENS WORKED FOURTEEN YEARS ON THIS MONUMENT TO COL. ROBERT GOULD SHAW, WHO DIED LEADING HIS NEGRO REGIMENT AT FORT WAGNER IN CHARLESTON HARBOR, 1863. THE FLYING FIGURE IN THIS PLASTER MODEL DIFFERS FROM THAT IN THE FINAL BRONZE WHICH STANDS ON BOSTON COMMON.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1993.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

Dryfhout, John, "The Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens," Hanover, NH: Univ. of New England Press, 1982, pg. 222-229.

Dryfhout, John, "The Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens," Hanover, NH: Univ. of New England Press, 1982, pg. 229.

Working model for: 76007839.

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