Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Keck, Alfred G.,
Jno. Williams, Inc.,
History -- United States
Architecture -- Boat
Architecture -- Boat
Figure female -- Waist length
Dress -- Accessory
Object -- Weapon
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Rutherford
Relief
Sculpture
(Pro Patria), (sculpture).
Artist:
Keck, Alfred G., sculptor.
Jno. Williams, Inc., founder.
Title:
(Pro Patria), (sculpture).
Dates:
1913. Dedicated May 30, 1914.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Granite, carved, with a ship's anchor and bronze plaques.
Dimensions:
Approx. 82 x 30 x 30 in.
Inscription:
(Front lower right of upper plaque:) G KECK S.C. (Upper plaque, raised:) IN MEMORIAM/U.S.S. MAINE/DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR/FEBRUARY 15TH 1898/THIS TABLET IS CAST FROM METAL RECOVERED FROM THE USS MAINE (Carved between plaques, raised:) PRo PATRIA (Lower plaque, raised:) ERECTED BY/THE SCHOOL CHILDREN AND/CITIZENS OF RUTHERFORD/UNDER THE AUSPICES OF/JOHN T. HILTON CAMP No. 3 U.S.W.V./MAY 30TH 1914 signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
A block topped with an anchor. The front of the block has two plaques with inscriptions. The upper plaque also has a relief of a woman holding a shield with her proper right hand raised in benediction. The center of the shield displays the United States Seal, and the background features a branch and a sword among rocks.
Subject:
History -- United States -- Spanish American War
Architecture -- Boat -- Maine
Architecture -- Boat -- Detail
Figure female -- Waist length
Dress -- Accessory -- Shield
Object -- Weapon -- Sword
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Rutherford
Relief
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Borough of Rutherford, Department of Public Works, 4 Agnew Place, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070
Located Lincoln Park, Park Avenue & Highland Avenue, across from Borough Hall, Rutherford, New Jersey
Remarks:
Title supplied by Inventory cataloger.
Erected by the school children and citizens of Rutherford under the auspices of the John T. Hilton Camp No. 3 U.S.W.V., in memory of the U.S.S. Maine. The upper plaque was cast from metal recovered from the U.S.S. Maine and the anchor is a replica of an anchor from a U.S.S. Maine lifeboat. The original anchor was stolen in 1925.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.
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 NJ000176
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NJ000176
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact