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    		• Hibbard, Frederick Cleveland,
     
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    		• Florentine Brotherhood Foundry,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Twain, Mark
     
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    		• Occupation -- Writer
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Hannibal
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Hibbard, Frederick Cleveland, 1881-1950, sculptor.
    Florentine Brotherhood Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1913.
    Medium: 
    Figure: bronze; Base: red granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Base: approx. 101 x 84 x 84 in.
    Inscription: 
    FREDERICK C. HIBBARD, 1913 FLORENTINE BROTHERS, FDY, CHICAGO, ILL. (On plaque on front of base, raised:) SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS/1835-MARK TWAIN-1910/HIS RELIGION WAS HUMANITY AND/A WHOLE WORLD/MOURNED FOR HIM WHEN HE DIED/ERECTED BY/THE STATE OF MISSOURI/1913 (On plaque on back of base, raised:) MARK TWAIN signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A mustached figure of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, stands wearing a suit and a long overcoat. His proper left hand is partially in the pocket of his suit and his proper right hand is partially in pocket of his overcoat. The figure stands atop a multitiered base.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Twain, Mark -- Full length
    Occupation -- Writer
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Hannibal
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Riverview Park, Overlooking the Mississippi River, Hannibal, Missouri
    Remarks: 
    The Commercial Club requested funds from the State of Missouri to erect a statue of Mark Twain. The State approved the funding in 1911 but delays and indecision in Hannibal about where to place the statue caused funding to become exhausted. Late in 1913, the legislature made $10,000 available for the statue and it was placed at its present location in Riverview Park. The figure was restored in 1987 through the efforts of the Mark Twain Home Foundation. Height of figure prevented SOS! surveyor from obtaining detailed measurement. IAS files contain an excerpt from J. Hurly Hagood's "Hannibal, Mark Twain's Town."
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Hagood, J. Hurley, "Hannibal, Mark Twain's Town," pg. 57.
    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 MO000239
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