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...
Cummings, Melvin Earl,
Putnam, Arthur,
Bakewell & Brown,
W. W. Blanchard & Son,
Portrait male -- Sloat, John Drake
Occupation -- Military
Animal -- Bird
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Monterey
Relief
Sculpture
Sloat Monument, (sculpture).
Artist:
Cummings, Melvin Earl, 1876-1936, sculptor.
Putnam, Arthur, 1873-1930, sculptor.
Bakewell & Brown, architectural firm.
W. W. Blanchard & Son, contractor.
Title:
Sloat Monument, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Commodore John Drake Sloat Monument, (sculpture).
Dates:
Begun 1896. Dedicated June 14, 1910.
Medium:
Sculpture: granite; Base: stone.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. H. 15 ft. x W. 20 ft.; Base: approx. H. 6 ft. x W. 24 ft. 1 in.
Inscription:
BAKEWELL & BROWN/ARCHITECTS/CUMMINGS & PUTNAM/SCULPTORS/W. W. BLANCHARD & SON/BUILDERS (On front of monument below relief:) TO.COMMEMORATE/THE.TAKING.POSSES/SION.OF.CALIFORNIA/BY.COMMODORE./JOHN.DRAKE/SLOAT/UNITED STATES NAVY/JULY 7.1846 (Names are inscribed on the base stones) signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
Granite sculpture of an eagle with folded wings. The bird's head stretches forward. The eagle is perched atop a stone monument. On the front face of the monument is a relief medallion featuring the portrait bust of Commodore John Drake Sloat. He is shown in proper left profile. The monument ends in a rectangular base constructed of stone blocks.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Sloat, John Drake -- Bust
Occupation -- Military -- Commodore
Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Monterey
Relief
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Monterey, Cultural Services, Colton Hall, Monterey, California 93940
Located Presidio, Ft. Mervine Lane, Monterey, California
Remarks:
Commodore Sloat landed a detachment of Marines in Monterey in 1846 and declared California a possession of the United States. The monument base was begun in 1896 through the efforts of Major E. A. Sherman. $10,000 of the total cost of the monument was provided by the federal government. The names of various contributors who provided funding for the base are inscribed on the faces of the individual stone blocks. Putnam sculpted the eagle; Cummings sculpted the relief portrait. Blakewell & Brown were the architects for the monument. IAS files contain copy of related excerpts from Anna Geil Andresen's "Historic Landmarks of Monterey, California", Salinas, CA: 1917, pg. 12-14; and Merrill A. Reed's "Historical Statues & Monuments in California", San Francisco: 1956, pg. 37, 40.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1994.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CA0003, 1989.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CA2033, 1989.
Monumental News, Jan. 1910, pg. 34-35; Oct. 1910, pg. 744.
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 CA001649
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
CA001649
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
Login
Help
