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Spanish-American War Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Perry, Delbert K., sculptor. Bishop, Earle, sculptor. Eberhard, Robert George, b. 1884, sculptor. Martino, Michel, b. 1889, sculptor. American Art Foundry, founder. William H. Allen Company, contractor. Title:  Spanish-American War Memorial, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated June 26, 1927. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Plaques: bronze; Lighthouse shaft: granite, sandstone, brownstone, and mortar. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 25 ft. x Diam. 8 ft.; Base: approx. H. 4 ft. x Diam. 8 ft. Inscription:  (Lower right corner of bas relief panels:) AMER ART FDR'Y N.Y. (Above plaques, around shaft:) CHINA CUBA PORTO RICO PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (On plaque:) 1898/IN MEMORIAM/"NOT A WAR FOR CONQUEST OR/FOR MILITARY GLORY, BUT A RIGHT-/EOUS WAR FOUGHT BY AMERICAN VOL-/UNTEERS TO SUCCOR THE WEAK AND/OPRESSED AGAINST FOREIGH TYR-/ANNY AND TO GIVE TO CUBA AND/THE PHILIPPINES A PLACE AMONG/THE FREE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH"/SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR/1902 unsigned Founder's mark appears. Description:  A replication of a lighthouse, reduced in size and non-functional. Around the lower portion of the piece is a series of bronze plaques. One depicts a battle scene from the Spanish American War; the second depicts a shipwreck and a lighthouse. The other panels discuss the war and list names of New Britain volunteers. Surrounding the sculpture is a circular pebble-stone courtyard with a brick, stone and metal wall, as well as a bridge which continues the line of the wall. Subject:  History -- United States -- Spanish American War Architecture -- Boat -- Sailboat Architecture exterior -- Lighthouse Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- New Britain Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of New Britain, Department of Parks and Recreation, 27 West Main Street, New Britain, Connecticut 06051 Located Willow Brook Park, New Britain, Connecticut Remarks:  Inscription on a carved stone plaque on an associated bridge reads: ERECTED BY THE CITY OF/NEW BRITAIN/A.D. 1927/DELBERT K. PERRY EARLE K. BISHOP/ARCHITECTS. This sculpture is a replication of the lighthouse in the harbor of Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba. It was in that harbor, by that lighthouse, that the U.S.S. Maine was sunk on February 15, 1898, the American pretext for initiating the Spanish-American War. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993. 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 CT000113   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CT000113 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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