Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Unknown,     Religion -- Angel     Gravestone     Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Friendsville     Sculpture

Grave Marker of Resley C. Rush and Mary E. Forsyth, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Title:  Grave Marker of Resley C. Rush and Mary E. Forsyth, (sculpture). Dates:  Cast 1878. Medium:  Angel: cast steel or white bronze; Base: stone, cast steel, metal. Dimensions:  Angel: approx. 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 ft.; Base: approx. 5 x 4 x 3 ft. Inscription:  WHITE B(...illegible) 3N2L(...illegible), BRIDGEPORT (...illegible)NN 1878 (On top front and top rear of base, raised:) R (On left front plaque on base, raised:) MARY/E./FORSYTH,/HIS WIFE,/BORN/SEPT. 6, 1866./DIED/DEC. 10, 1920 (On right front plaque on base, raised:) RESLEY C. RUSH,/BORN/APRIL 19, 1867./"WE HAVE LOVED,/WE LOVE, WE/SHALL LOVE." (On front and rear of base under plaques, raised:) RUSH Founder's mark appears. Description:  An angel with clasped hands kneeling on one knee. The angel sits on a multitiered base with two text plaques on the front, two relief plaques on back, and one plaque on each side. One side plaque depicts a plant. The back reliefs depict kneeling angels, shown in the same position as the Angel on top. Subject:  Religion -- Angel Object Type:  Gravestone Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Friendsville Sculpture Owner:  Blooming Rose Cemetery, Blooming Rose Road, Friendsville, Maryland 21531 Remarks:  The kneeling angel and part of the base were made of steel cast in sections and then assembled. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland 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 MD000065   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture MD000065 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact