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Charles Sumner, (sculpture). Artist:  Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915, sculptor. Chicopee Bronze Works, founder. Title:  Charles Sumner, (sculpture). Dates:  Modeled 1875. Cast 1902. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 85 x 38 x 56 in.; Base: approx. 57 x 52 1/2 x 70 12 in. Inscription:  (On proper left side of sculpture:) Anne Whitney (On proper right side of sculpture:) .M.H.MOSMAN./.FOUNDER./CHICOPEE.MASS. (On front of base, in recessed bronze letters:) SUMNER signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  A portrait of Charles Sumner seated in a chair rests atop a square base adorned with an oakleaf border. Sumner holds a book in his lap with his proper right hand and rests his proper left hand on the chair seat. His coat is draped over the back of the chair. Subject:  Portrait male -- Sumner, Charles -- Full length Occupation -- Political -- Statesman Occupation -- Other -- Reformer Object -- Written Matter -- Book Object -- Furniture -- Chair Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts Located Harvard Square, Traffic island bordered by Massachusetts Avenue, between Garden Street & Church Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts Remarks:  Anne Whitney created this sculpture in 1875, but it was not cast in bronze until 1902. She modeled the piece for an anonymous competition and she won, but when it was discovered she was a woman, her commission was revoked. Thomas Ball's portrait of Sumner was chosen instead for Boston's Public Garden. IAS files contain an excerpt from Elizabeth Rogers Payne's "Anne Whitney, Sculptor," Art Quarterly 25 (1962), pg. 224-261. For additional information see also: Donna Buchmann and Sherry Piland's "Women Artist," Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978; Charlotte Streifer Rubenstein's "American Women Artists," Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1982, pg. 82-83; and the Boston Globe, February 14, 1915. References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985 Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994. National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA0028, 1989. Monumental News, July, Dec. 1902. Hutchison, James, 2012. 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 76008337   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76008337 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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