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Lazzari, Pietro,
Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry,
Portrait male -- Gallaudet, Edward Miner
Occupation -- Education
Outdoor Sculpture -- District of Columbia -- Washington
Sculpture
Edward Miner Gallaudet, (sculpture).
Artist:
Lazzari, Pietro, 1898-1979, sculptor.
Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry, founder.
Title:
Edward Miner Gallaudet, (sculpture).
Dates:
1969. Dedicated 1969.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 7 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. 1 in. x 3 ft. 2 in.; Base: approx. 3 ft. 10 in. x 4 ft. 8 in. x 4 ft. 9 in.
Inscription:
Pietro Lazzari sc 69 / BEDI-RASSY ART FOUNDRY (Base, plaque on front:) EDWARD MINER GALLAUDET/1837-1917/FOUNDER AND FIRST PRESIDENT/OF GALLAUDET COLLEGE/1864-1910/ERECTED OUT OF GRATITUDE/BY THE /ALUMNI ASSOCIATION/AND ITS FRIENDS/1969 signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
Standing figure of Edward Miner Gallaudet dressed in academic robes. He stands next to a low pedestal on which he rests his proper right hand. With his proper left hand he holds out a degree.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Gallaudet, Edward Miner -- Full length
Occupation -- Education -- Teacher
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- District of Columbia -- Washington
Sculpture
Owner:
Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue, N.E., Washington, District of Columbia 20002
Remarks:
Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917)was the son of the founder of the first American school for the deaf (located in Hartford, Connecticut), Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. At age twenty, Edward Miner Gallaudet became president of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind which was later known as the National Deaf Mute College after Lincoln authorized the school to grant college degrees. In 1894, the college was renamed Gallaudet College in honor of Edward Miner Gallaudet's father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, District of Columbia survey, 1993.
Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, pg. 319.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, pg. 319.
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 DC000063
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