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Ladies' Confederate Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown (Italian), sculptor. Ranck, George W., designer. Muldoon Monument Company, fabricator. Title:  Ladies' Confederate Memorial, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Confederate Cross Monument, (sculpture). Dates:  1874. Installed Oct. 1874. Dedicated May 26, 1875. Medium:  Sculpture: marble; Base: limestone (?). Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 10 ft. x 5 ft. x 17 in.; Base: approx. 6 ft. 3 in. x 7 ft. 4 in. x 7 ft. Inscription:  (On back of cross:) OUR DEAD (On front of base:) 1874 unsigned Description:  A rustic cross, carved as if formed of intersecting logs, mounted on a trapezoidal base (flaring towards bottom) which is carved to resemble a pile of rugged stones. Propped against the cross is a broken staff carrying a Confederate flag which is draped across and behind the horizontal bar of the cross. On the front of the base is an unfurled scroll, bearing the date 1874; across it, a broken sword. Shoots of oak and ivy are carved as if sprouting from among the piled stones of the base. Subject:  History -- United States -- Civil War Allegory -- Other -- Defeat State of Being -- Emotion -- Sorrow Emblem -- Cross Literature -- Ryan -- Conquered Banner Object -- Other -- Flag Object -- Weapon -- Sword Object -- Foliage -- Oak Object -- Foliage -- Ivy Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Lexington Sculpture Owner:  Lexington Cemetery, 833 West Main Street, Section P, Lexington, Kentucky 40508 Remarks:  Sculpture was designed by Ranck but executed in Italy; it arrived in Kentucky in September 1874 and was installed by Muldoon Monument Company in October. Muldoon also made the base. Design may have been inspired by the poem "The Conquered Banner" written by Father Abram Joseph Ryan, chaplain of the Confederacy. Funds for the monument were collected by the Ladies' Memorial and Monument Association of Lexington, starting in 1869; Muldoon Monument Company was contracted in 1873 to create the memorial. IAS files contain related newspaper clipping from Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), Feb. 2, 1975; and excerpt from Burton Milward's "A History of the Lexington Cemetery," 1989, pg. 46. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky 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 KY000011   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture KY000011 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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