Hiram PowersStati Uniti, 1805–1873James Gibson Powers
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About the sculpture
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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- 1968.155.110
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 10 giorni fa
- Immagine: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
