James Gibson Powers

James (Jimmy) Gibson Powers was Hiram Powers’s first child. He died from a brain tumor in 1838, when he was only four years old. Shortly after the boy died, Powers took a cast of his son’s face to preserve his likeness and perhaps use as a model for a bust. Some of the child’s eyelashes, eyebrows, and hair are embedded in the plaster, making the tragedy of his death real to viewers of this piece more than a century later.

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En la misma sala · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 17B, Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americano

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Andrew Jackson

George Washington

The Greek Slave

Fisher Boy

Proserpine

Bust of "The Greek Slave"

America

California

Alma Hammond L'Hommedieu, 1872 or 1873

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, modeled 1869

Judge Alphonso Taft, 1869

Henry Barrett Crosby, 1869 or 1870

Caleb Fiske Harris, 1867

Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1867

Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson, 1862

Solomon Sturgis, modeled 1862

William West Durant, modeled 1863

Philosophy (bust of figure on front facade of New York Public Library), modeled ca. 1915

Eve Disconsolate, modeled 1855-1861

Chivalry, Half-scale Head for General George G. Meade Memorial, 1917-1920

Preliminary Model of Male Figure from Fountain of Engineers, ca. 1905-1914

Hope, modeled 1869

Model for Seated Statue of James Smithson, 1904

Head of Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette Monument, Paris, France), modeled 1899-1907