Solomon Sturgis

Solomon Sturges was a successful grain merchant in Chicago. During the Civil War, he organized and financed a large group of Union volunteers called the Sturges Rifles. The sitter’s son, Benjamin Sturges, commissioned this portrait in 1862. As Solomon Sturges was unable to travel to Italy, Hiram Powers worked from photographs and measurements provided by the son. Unfortunately, crossing the Atlantic from Florence to the United States was complicated by the war, and the marble sculpture reached America only a week before Sturges’s death.

Sulla scultura

Scheda

Nella stessa sala · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 17B, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sullo stesso tema · Sculpture model

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Che cosa raffigura

In catalogo

Fonti

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

Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson, 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