William West Durant

Born in 1850, William West Durant was the eldest child of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Clark Durant. In 1863, Mrs. Durant left New York with her two children and spent the next thirteen years in Europe, leaving her husband behind to attend to his flourishing railroad business. In Florence she commissioned Hiram Powers to create portraits of herself and her children, and ordered several replicas of other statues. The Durants were slow in paying the artist, and he told them that “I shall put the models of your busts on a separate shelf with the names attached and mark that shelf Delinquents . . . You can become famous if you like.”

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Scheda

Sotto lo stesso tetto: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sullo stesso tema · Classical dress

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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

Muskrat, before 1997

Cane with Boot-Shaped Handle, late 19th-early 20th century

San Jose, late 19th-early 20th century

Nuestra Senora del Carmen, ca. late 19th-early 20th century

San Rafael, late 19th-early 20th century

Worrying Mother Pig Toy, 20th century (pre-1960s)

Bright Light at Russell's Corners, 1946

Fish Decoy, ca. 1940s

Diana, 1853

Study for mural, Union Trust Company Building, "The Sources of Wealth", ca. 1903

Study for Mosaic, Wisconsin State Capital, "Legislation", ca. 1913

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Youth and Age, 1883-1884

Hope, modeled 1869

Sketch for Mosaic, Wisconsin State Capital, "Justice", ca. 1912

Senator William Campbell Preston, modeled 1837

Catherine Hampton, modeled 1849