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...     Dimitrieff, N. V.,     Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry,     Portrait male -- Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich     Ethnic -- Russian     Occupation -- Writer     Occupation -- Writer     Object -- Written Matter     Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Cassville     Sculpture

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), (sculpture). Artist:  Dimitrieff, N. V., sculptor. Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry, founder. Title:  Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), (sculpture). Dates:  1941. Dedicated 1949. Medium:  Statue: bronze, painted black; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Statue: approx. 4 x 3 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 6 x 5 x 5 ft. Inscription:  N. V. Dimitrieff/1941 BEDI-RASSY FOUNDRY N.Y.C. (On front of base, raised:) PUSHKIN/1799 - 1837 signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  A waist-length portrait of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, wearing long sideburns and dressed in traditional 19th century gentleman's clothes, including a cape which hangs over his proper right shoulder and flows around his back to his proper left side. He holds a scrolled paper with text inscribed into it in his proper left hand. His proper right hand is raised up to his chest. The portrait is painted black and is installed on top of a tapered stone base. Subject:  Portrait male -- Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich -- Waist length Ethnic -- Russian Occupation -- Writer -- Poet Occupation -- Writer -- Dramatist Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Cassville Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Jackson Township, Department of Public Works, Jackson Township, New Jersey 08527 Located Pushkin Park, Rova Farm, Intersection of Route 571 & Perrineville Road, Cassville, New Jersey Remarks:  Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837, a poet and dramatist, introduced Romanticism into Russian literature. The monument was erected on the 150th anniversary of Pushkin's birth. IAS files contain a clipping from the Ocean County Reporter (NJ), Oct. 7, 1978 that notes the sculpture was painted white by vandals. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995. Illustration:  Image on file. Ocean County Reporter (NJ), Oct. 7, 1978. 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 NJ000261   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NJ000261 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.0

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