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    		• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus,
     
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    		• White, Stanford,
     
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    		• Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
     
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    		• Figure group -- Female
     
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    		• Emblem -- Cross
     
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    		• Homage -- Fish, Hamilton
     
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    		• Homage -- Fish, Julia Kean
     
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    		• Homage -- D'Hauteville, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish
     
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    		• Occupation -- Political
     
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    		• Occupation -- Political
     
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    		• Occupation -- Political
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Garrison
     
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    		• Gravestone
     
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    Hamilton Fish Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, sculptor.
    White, Stanford, 1853-1906, architect.
    Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Hamilton Fish Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Cast 1891. Installed (?) 1892.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze, with patina; Sarcophagus: pinkish/tan brown granite; Foundation: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Figures: each approx. H. 6 ft.; Cross: approx. H. 9 ft.; Sarcophagus: approx. 4 ft. 1/2 in. x 11 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft.
    Inscription: 
    CAST BY THE HENRY BONNARD C NEW YORK 1891 (Sarcophagus, incised lettering:) (Left panel:) JULIA KEAN FISH/BORN DECEMBER XVII/MDCCCXVI./DIED JUNE XXX/MDCCCLXXXVII. (Center panel:) HAMILTON FISH./BORN AUGUST III/MDCCCVIII./DIED SEPTEMBER VII/MDCCCXCIII. (Right panel:) ELIZABETH STUYVESANT/D'HAUTEVILLE./BORN MARCH XI/MDCCCXXXIX./DIED MARCH 1/MDCCCLXIV unsigned Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A sarcophagus of polished granite, topped with a bronze sculpture of a cross with two women facing it on either side. The women are robed and veiled, and stand with their arms upraised in a gesture of prayer. The sarcophagus is installed upon a rectangular stone foundation.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Female
    Emblem -- Cross
    Homage -- Fish, Hamilton
    Homage -- Fish, Julia Kean
    Homage -- D'Hauteville, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish
    Occupation -- Political -- Governor
    Occupation -- Political -- Senator
    Occupation -- Political -- Secretary of State
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Garrison
    Gravestone
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    St. Philip's-in-the-Highlands Cemetery, Route 9D, Garrison, New York 10524
    Remarks: 
    The memorial marks the graves of Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), his wife Julia Kean Fish (1816-1887), and their daughter, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish d'Hauteville (1839-1864). Hamilton Fish was a governor and senator of New York, and Secretary of State during the Grant Administration. Stanford White collaborated in the design of the memorial, particularly the design of the cross. Initial designs depicted the women kneeling, with one holding an infant. This may have been in homage to Fish's daughter Elizabeth, who might have died in childbirth. At Fish's request the design was modified. IAS files contain excerpt from John H. Dryfhout's "The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens," University of New England Press, 1982, pg. 199 (which lists date of sculpture as 1892). IAS files also contain excerpt from Homer Saint-Gardens, ed., "The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint Gaudens," New York: Century Company, 1913, 2 vols., pg. 108, 355.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Dryfhout, John H., "The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens," University of New England Press, 1982, pg. 199.
    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 NY001061
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