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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Jacksonville
     
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    Jacksonville's Civil War Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Crunelle, Leonard, 1872-1944, sculptor.
    American Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Jacksonville's Civil War Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated 1920.
    Medium: 
    Female figure atop pedestal: bronze; Base and base figures: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 10 x 4 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 17 x 15 x 15 ft.
    Inscription: 
    CRUNELLE SC.(Base front, south side:) IN MEMORY/OF THE MEN WHOSE/STALWART PATRIOTISM/AND WILLING SACRIFICE/PRESERVED THE UNION/AND ABOLISHED SLAVERY/THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED IN/GRATEFUL REMEMBERANCE BY THE/CITIZENS OF MORGAN COUNTY/DEDICATED 1920. (Base east side:) PATRIOTISM/ANSWERS THE CALL/TO ARMS. (Base north side:) THE MYSTIC/CHORDS OF MEMORY,/STRETCHING FROM EVERY/BATTLEFIELD, TO EVERY/PATRIOT HEART AND/HEARTHSTONE OVER ALL/THIS BROAD LAND, WILL/YET SWELL THE CHORUS/OF THE UNION WHEN/TOUCHED, AS THEY SURE-/LY WILL BE BY THE BET-/TER ANGELS OF OUT/NATURE. - A. LINCOLN (Base west side:) TO THE NOBLE WOMEN/WHOSE PRAYERS AND/FAITH AND HEROIC DEEDS/WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. (Bronze plates on the sloping part of the base are inscribed with names of Veterans)
    Description: 
    Atop a tall pedestal, a standing bronze female figure wearing a garland in her hair, holding a scroll in her proper left hand and resting her proper right hand on the hilt of a sword. Below her, on the west side of the base, is a seated woman and standing boy; his hands on top of a helmet resting on the woman's knee. On the east side of the base is a seated male figure, leaning to his proper left. Below the base figures is a multi-stepped platform with inscribed bronze tablets. Fountains are on the north and south sides.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure group
    Object -- Weapon -- Sword
    Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll
    Dress -- Accessory -- Helmet
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Jacksonville
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Jacksonville Square, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain a copy of an article form The State-Journal Register, May 30, 1983, which quotes Richard Simonson, a Jacksonville native, as saying the work was inspired by Abraham Lincon's "Noble Women of the North," and was done in tribute to the role of women in war time.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992.
    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 IL000181
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