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    		• Dallin, Cyrus Edwin,
     
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    		• Janowsky, Bela,
     
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    		• Gorham Manufacturing Company,
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Eddy, Mary Baker
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Brookline
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Mary Baker Eddy, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Dallin, Cyrus Edwin, 1861-1944, sculptor.
    Janowsky, Bela, 1900- , designer.
    Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Mary Baker Eddy, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned Feb. 1922. Modeled 1922. Cast 1922.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: New Hampshire granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 96 x 36 x 27 in.; Base: approx. 36 x 40 1/2 x 31 in.
    Inscription: 
    (dated) C.E. DALLIN (On front of base:) MARY BAKER EDDY signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A standing portrait of Mary Baker Eddy, her proper right hand raised with the palm facing up, and her proper left hand holding an open book down at her side. She wears a long dress with a shawl around her shoulders.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Eddy, Mary Baker -- Full length
    Occupation -- Religion
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Brookline
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Restricted Owner, Terrace, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    Mary Beecher Longyear commissioned this sculpture in February 1922 to honor Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. The artist read and was inspired by "Science and Health Key to the Scriptures" when he was modeling the sculpture. Although the sculpture was completed in 1922, it was placed in storage for more than forty years and was not publicly displayed until 1966 when it was installed on a brick terrace overlooking the formal garden at Longyear Historical Society. It was installed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Christian Science. Bela Janowsky designed the base. IAS files contain a copy of the Longyear Foundation Quarterly News 3 (Spring 1966) which notes that the sculpture was cast in 1922.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Longyear Historical Society and Museum, 1988.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994.
    Longyear Foundation, 2022.
    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 76005758
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