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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     MacNeil, Hermon A.,     Portrait male -- Yale, Milton H.     Portrait male -- Yale, William T.     Homage -- Yale, Thomas     Homage -- Yale, John     Homage -- Yale, Nash     Homage -- Yale, Divan B.     Figure group -- Male     Allegory -- Quality     Occupation -- Other     Occupation -- Industry     Occupation -- Farm     Occupation -- Military     Occupation -- Science     Occupation -- Political     Occupation -- Vendor     Dress -- Historic     Outdoor Sculpture -- New York     Gravestone     Relief     Sculpture

(Yale Memorial), (sculpture). Artist:  MacNeil, Hermon A., 1866-1947, sculptor. Title:  (Yale Memorial), (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated May 20, 1939. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Reliefs: bronze; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Each relief: approx. 16 x 8 x 2 1/2 in.; Base: approx. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft. Inscription:  (Reliefs, just below each figure:) SETTLER/SURVEYOR/FARMER/REV SOLDIER/INVENTOR/POSTMASTER/MERCHANT (On side of base, incised below reliefs:) COURAGE/1616 THOMAS YALE 1683/1647 CAPT. THOS. YALE 1736/1687 JOHN YALE 1782/1715 NASH YALE 1802/1744 NASH YALE 1789/1772 DIVAN B. YALE 1849 (On front of base, incised below reliefs:) 1637.YALE.1937/LANDED AT BOSTON FROM WALES/SETTLED IN NEW HAVEN COLONY 1638/CAME TO SALISBURY ABOUT 1810 WHENCE/THE LAST FIVE OF TEN GENERATIONS WENT FORTH (On base plaque, raised letters:) THE WESTERN PORTION OF/THIS CEMETERY WAS/GIVEN TO THE ASSN./BY MILTON H. YALE/- IN 1907 -/THE YALE MEMORIAL/TRUST FUND GIVEN IN 1922/BY HIS SON WILLIAM T YALE AND OTHER CEMETERY/BENEFACTORS AS AN ENDOWMENT FOR THE CEME/TERYS PERPETUAL CARE unsigned Description:  Nine rectangular, gilded reliefs are installed along three sides of a rectangular base. In each relief a male figure represents one of the various professions of the Yale family members. The professions, such as settler, surveyor, farmer, soldier, inventor, postmaster, and merchant, are inscribed at the base of each relief. The fourth side of the base has an inscription plaque containing two circular relief portraits, one of William T. Yale and one of Milton H. Yale. Subject:  Portrait male -- Yale, Milton H. -- Bust Portrait male -- Yale, William T. -- Bust Homage -- Yale, Thomas Homage -- Yale, John Homage -- Yale, Nash Homage -- Yale, Divan B. Figure group -- Male Allegory -- Quality -- Fortitude Occupation -- Other -- Pioneer Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering Occupation -- Farm Occupation -- Military -- Soldier Occupation -- Science -- Inventor Occupation -- Political -- Postmaster Occupation -- Vendor Dress -- Historic -- Eighteenth Century Dress Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New York Gravestone Relief Sculpture Owner:  Restricted Owner, Herkimer County, 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 NY000423   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NY000423 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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