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...
Zimm, Bruno Louis,
Ware, Arthur,
Wills & Marvin,
History -- United States
Animal -- Bird
Emblem -- Seal
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- White Plains
Sculpture
New York State Monument, (sculpture).
Artist:
Zimm, Bruno Louis, 1876-1943, sculptor.
Ware, Arthur, architect.
Wills & Marvin, contractor.
Title:
New York State Monument, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Statehood Monument, (sculpture).
State Birthplace Monument, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated June 14, 1910.
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite and fieldstone.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 5 1/2 ft. x 6 1/2 x 4 ft. 8 in.; Base: approx. 14 x 8 x 8 ft.
Inscription:
(On base, front:) SITE/OF THE/COUNTY COURTHOUSE/WHERE/ON JULY 10, 1776 THE/PROVINCIAL CONGRESS/PROCLAIMED/THE PASSING OF THE/DEPENDENT COLONY/AND THE BIRTH OF/THE/INDEPENDENT STATE/OF/NEW YORK/ERECTED BY THE WHITE PLAINS CHAPTER/DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION/1910 (On granite stones around base:) THESE STONES ARE FROM/THE FOUNDATION OF THE/ORIGINAL COURT HOUSE/ERECTED IN 1759 unsigned
Description:
An eagle with wings spread outward and upward is perched atop a tapered pedestal. A relief of the New York State Seal is affixed to the top front of the pedestal.
Subject:
History -- United States -- New York
Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
Emblem -- Seal
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- White Plains
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Related Management Company, 35 South Broadway, White Plains, New York 10601
Located Armory Plaza, South Broadway & Mitchell Place, White Plains, New York
Remarks:
Erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution, White Plains Chapter, the monument marks the site of the first Westchester County Courthouse in which New York was declared an independent state. The stones used were part of the foundation and jail of the first and second courthouses. The total cost of the monument was $5,000. IAS files contain an excerpt from "Yesterday in White Plains: a Picture History of a Bygone Era," by Renoda Hoffman.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, NY5155, 1989.
Monumental News, Jan., April, and Aug. 1910.
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 NY001310
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NY001310
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
