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  • Monumental Bronze Company,
     
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  • Homage -- McMinn, James W.
     
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  • Homage -- McMinn, Alice
     
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  • Homage -- McMinn, Louise
     
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  • Figure female -- Full length
     
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  • Dress -- Historic
     
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  • Object -- Written Matter
     
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  • Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Watertown
     
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  • Gravestone
     
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  • Sculpture
     
     
    McMinn, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Monumental Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    McMinn, (sculpture).
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    Image
    Medium: 
    Figure: zinc; Base: zinc.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. 6 ft. x 16 in. x 16 in.; Base: approx. 11 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of base:) He Has Wandered Into An/Unknown Land and Left us/Dreaming How Very Fair it/must be since/He Lingers there (On upper back of base, raised letters:) M (On midsection of back of base, raised letters:) ALICE/McMINN/DIED/AUG 14, 1896/AGE/30 YEARS (On lower back of base, raised letters:) McMINN (On upper side of base, raised letters:) M (On midsection of side of base, raised letters:) JAMES W. McMINN/DIED/AUG. 13, 1886/AGE/63 YEARS/3 MONTHS (On lower side of base, raised letters:) McMINN (On other side of base:) LOUISE McMINN/DIED/MARCH 28, 1902/AGE/78 years 8 mos./28 days unsigned
    Description: 
    A female figure, dressed in classical garb, stands pointing upward with her proper right hand. She holds a book at her side in her proper left hand. The figure is placed atop an inscribed multitiered base that is decorated at its midsection with fluted Corinthian columns and at its top with peaked projections.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- McMinn, James W.
    Homage -- McMinn, Alice
    Homage -- McMinn, Louise
    Figure female -- Full length
    Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
    Object -- Written Matter -- Book
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Watertown
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by North Watertown Cemetery Association, 811 Bradley Street, Watertown, New York 13601
    Located North Watertown Cemetery, Southern section, Watertown, New York
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    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 NY000441
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