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    Hercules, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Hercules, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1820. Relocated 1951.
    Medium: 
    Painted wood; Base: concrete and brick.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 8 ft. x 58 in. x 44 in.; Base: approx. 30 x 60 x 60 in. (1 1/2 tons).
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A wooden ship's figurehead depicting the head and torso of Hercules with a lion skin draped over his back. The head of the lion skin rests on Hercules' proper right shoulder, and the lion skin is tied with the lion's paws around Hercules' waist. The sculpture is installed inside a fenced pavilion area.
    Subject: 
    Mythology -- Classical -- Hercules
    Dress -- Accessory -- Fur
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Stony Brook
    Figurehead
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Village of Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
    Located Stony Brook Village Green, Main Street, Stony Brook, New York
    Remarks: 
    This sculpture of Hercules was the figurehead from the U.S.S. Ohio, a 74 gun ship built in 1820 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In 1884, the ship was decommissioned and dynamited near Greenport and sold for scrap. The one and a half ton Hercules figurehead was preserved and mounted on a pedestal at the Canoe Place Inn in Hampton Bays. The figurehead remained at that location for about sixty years. In 1954, it was purchased by the Village of Stony Brook, restored, and repainted in its original colors.
    The inscription on a small plaque located on a nearby fence reads: HERCULES/FIGUREHEAD FROM/USS OHIO/BUILT AT BROOKLYN NAVY YARD 1820/DISMANTLED AT GREENSPORT 1884/PRESENTED BY/CORNELIUS N. VAN PATTERN/AND THOMAS L. O'DONNELLL/TO THE STONY BROOK COMMUNITY FUND 1951.
    "Maritime New York in Nineteenth-Century Photographs" by Harry Johnson and Frederick S. Lightfoot (New York: Dover Publications, pg. 118) includes a photograph of the Hercules figurehead installed on the prow of the U.S.S. Ohio. IAS files contain an excerpt from "A Tour of Historic Sites" by the Suffolk County Historical Society, Jan. 30, 1993, pg. 5.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York 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 NY001911
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