Stories tagged "Bronze": 4
Untitled, 1991-1994
This intriguing bronze group harmonizes perfectly with the other outdoor pieces placed along the same street: Basaldella's Initiation and Youngman's Centennial. All evoke a sense of archaeological discovery, of mysterious meaning, of civilizations…
The Pioneers, 1928
The grimly earnest, realistic figural group cast in bronze from this original plaster stands in a park in Taft's birthplace, Elmwood, lllinois. At the base is the inscription, "To the Pioneers / Who bridged the streams / Subdued the soil and /…
Dr. Gallaudet and His First Deaf-Mute Pupil, 1888
Dr. Thomas Gallaudet founded the first free school for the deaf in the United States, the American School for the Deaf, in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1817. He is shown in this naturalistic sculptural portrait with Alice Cogswell, the child who sparked…
To the Fair Memory of Anna Margarethe Lange, Wife of Edmund Janes James, 1917
In 1917 President Edmund Janes James commissioned and presented this nearly seven-foot-high bronze plaque to the university as a memorial to his wife, Anna Margarethe Lange, who had died three years earlier. The gifted sculptor Kathleen Robinson…