Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Bayes, Gilbert,     Harrison Granite Company,     Portrait female -- Caldwell, Mary Guendaline Byrd     Portrait female -- Caldwell, Mary Elizabeth Breckinridge     Occupation -- Other     Ethnic -- German     Dress -- Historic     Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Louisville     Gravestone     Sculpture

(Caldwell Monument), (sculpture). Artist:  Bayes, Gilbert, sculptor. Harrison Granite Company, fabricator. Title:  (Caldwell Monument), (sculpture). Dates:  1910-1912. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: Greek marble; Base: marble. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 7 ft. 6 in. x 45 in. x 30 in.; Base: approx. 3 ft. x 6 ft. x 56 in. Inscription:  (Front of base, incised:) "Know the truth and the truth shall make you free." unsigned Description:  Standing figures of Mary Guendaline Byrd Caldwell and Mary Elizabeth Breckinridge Caldwell in classical dress. One figure rests her proper left hand on the other figure's proper left shoulder. The first figure's proper right hand holds the front figure's proper right hand. They stand atop a multitiered base with inscriptions, set in a plaza surrounded by an exedra. Subject:  Portrait female -- Caldwell, Mary Guendaline Byrd -- Full length Portrait female -- Caldwell, Mary Elizabeth Breckinridge -- Full length Occupation -- Other -- Aristocrat Ethnic -- German Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Louisville Gravestone Sculpture Owner:  Cave Hill National Cemetery, 701 Baxter Avenue, Section 13, Lot 111, Louisville, Kentucky 40204 Remarks:  Inscription on plaza reads: Mary Elizabeth Breckinridge Caldwell/Baroness Von Zedtwitz/Born December 26, 1865/Died December 16, 1910/Mary Guendaline Byrd Caldwell/Marquise Des Monstiers Merinville/Born October 21, 1863/Died October 5, 1909. The exedra was executed and erected by Harrison Granite Company. IAS files contain related information from Samuel W. Thomas' "Cave Hill Cemetery," Louisville, KY: Cave Hill Cemetery Co., 1985, pg. 8. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky survey, 1995. National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, KY5009, 1989. Monumental News, March 1913, pg. 194. Illustration:  Image on file. Thomas, Samuel W., "Cave Hill Cemetery," Louisville, KY: Cave Hill Cemetery Co., 1985, pg. 8. Monumental News, March 1913, pg. 194 and cover. 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 KY000156   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture KY000156 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact