List_of_American_sculptors_exhibited_at_the_1893_World's_Columbian_Exposition Knowpia

Sculpture could be found at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in various different places and serving a diverse number of functions. The works displayed in the specially designed sculpture exhibition halls tended to be by the better known artists of the day but the visitors to the Expo did not need to enter the buildings to find sculpture. The grounds, especially around the lagoon areas and decorating the various bridges were liberally sprinkled with sculpture, most of it made out of staff, an impermanent material. Also to be found were a number of fountains. Another form of sculpture at the Fair, also made of staff, was the architectural sculpture that adorned a large number of the buildings.

Architectural sculpture edit

But here it might be well to say something of the material of which they are constructed, the new and wonderful "staff." It has the properties of both common plaster and cement, and can be worked into any required design; in hardening it shows an ivory-like surface, which, however, can be colored in any desired tint. Thus the most ornate architectural effects are produced, and all the buildings, being covered with this decorative substance, present the appearance of veritable palaces. For the designs, etc., it is modeled into plates the required size and joined invisibly, and it is estimated that about 500,000 of these pieces have been used in the large buildings alone.^[1]^: 452–53

Sixteen bridges spanned the lagoons that meandered through the fairgrounds. Four statues of native American mammals, also made of staff, decorated the piers at each end of a bridge.^[1]^: 453

The sculptors and their works edit

Artist	Works Exhibited	Image	Medium	Year	Current Collection	Notes
Herbert Adams	St. Agnes' Eve		plaster	1892	unlocated
	Primavera		polychromed marble	1890-92	Corcoran Gallery of Art
	Portrait Bust of a Lady Adeline Valentine		marble	1889	The Hispanic Society of America
Thomas Ball	Portrait of a Lady		plaster	1889	unlocated
	Paul Revere		bronze	1883	Cincinnati Art Museum
	Portrait of a Gentleman		plaster		unlocated
	Colossal Statue of George Washington		bronze	1889-93	Forest Lawn Memorial Park	In the Rotunda:
	Christ and the Little Child		marble	1881	Mary Provincial House Methuen, Massachusetts
Paul Wayland Bartlett	Medallion portrait of the Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Skinner		bronze	1892	Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, Virginia
	Bust of Mrs. B (Emily Montgomery Skinner Bartlett)		marble	1892	unlocated
	Bohemian and Bears		plaster	1887	Art Institute of Chicago	Presumed destroyed
	The Bohemian Bear Tamer		bronze	1889	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	The Ghost Dance (study of the nude)		plaster	1889	unlocated
	Sundance or Ghost Dance		bronze	1889	National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution
George Edwin Bissell	John Watts, the last Royal Recorder of New York and founder of the Leake and Watts Orphan House		bronze	1892	Trinity Church, New York
Karl Bitter	Administration Building (architectural sculpture): designed by Richard Morris Hunt Growth of Civilization – 28 sculpture groups					Destroyed in a July 1894 fire
	Liberty		staff
	Religion
	Science
	War
	Fishermaid and Blacksmith
	Water Uncontrolled and Water Controlled					Water Controlled (l) and Water Uncontrolled
	Fire Uncontrolled and Fire Controlled
	Diligence
	Patriotism
	Truth
Richard W. Bock
	Electricity Building (architectural sculpture): Solon Spencer Beman, architect		staff			Sculpture contracted from the Philipson Company

	Mines and Mining Building (architectural sculpture): Solon Spencer Beman, architect		staff			Sculpture contracted from the Phillipson Company
	Manufactures Building: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company pavilion
Gutzon Borglum	Indian Scouts		bronze	1891	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
John J. Boyle	Tired Out		bronze	1887	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
	Pennsylvania Building (architectural sculpture):
	Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (over main entrance)		staff
	William Penn and Benjamin Franklin (flanking main entrance)
	Mines and Mining (atop corner pavilion)
	Science, Manufactures and Agriculture (atop corner pavilion)

	Transportation Building (architectural sculpture): Louis Sullivan, architect					Boyle was awarded a medal for his architectural sculpture on the Transportation Building.^[2]
	Apotheosis of Transportation (tympanum over main entrance)		staff
	Ancient Transportation (bas-relief panel by main entrance)
	George Stephenson Dennis Papin James Watt The Brakeman Joseph Michael Montgolfier The Pilot Robert Fulton (on balustrades of side porches):
	The Genius of the Locomotive
Caroline Shawk Brooks	Lady Godiva Returning		marble			Destroyed in San Francisco earthquake of 1906
	La Rosa (Vanderbilt Group)		marble	1886	private collection
	Lady Godiva		marble			Destroyed in San Francisco earthquake of 1906
	The Dreaming Iolanthe		marble		unlocated
Carol Brooks	Enid		plaster		unlocated
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown	The Buffalo Hunter		plaster	1893
Alexander Sterling Calder	Cordelia		plaster	1892	unlocated
Alexander Sterling Calder	Boy with Ribbon		plaster		unlocated
Thomas Shields Clarke	The Cider Press		bronze	1892	De Young Museum, San Francisco, California	On the grounds of the De Young Museum:
Katherine M. Cohen	Bust of Harry Souther		plaster	1890	unlocated
Ellen Rankin Copp	Relief portrait of Miss Harriet Monroe		bronze	1893	unlocated
Cyrus Edwin Dallin	Signal of Peace		bronze	1890	Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois
Cyrus Edwin Dallin	Portrait bust of Dr. I.		marble	ca. 1892	unlocated
John Talbott Donoghue	The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of Salamis		bronze	1885	Honolulu Museum of Art
	Kypros		plaster	ca. 1890	unlocated
	Hunting Nymph		plaster	1886	unlocated
Frank Edwin Elwell	Charles Dickens and Little Nell		bronze	1890	Clark Park, 43rd Street & Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Installed in Clark Park, Philadelphia:
Frank Edwin Elwell	Intellect Dominating Brute Force or Diana and the Lion	(foreground, left)	marble	ca. 1893	Fabyan Villa, Geneva, New York
Jacob Fjelde	Bas-relief of Bert Harwood		plaster		unlocated
Jacob Fjelde	Bust of Judge Nelson		bronze	1890	U.S. District Court, St. Paul, Minnesota
Daniel Chester French	Bust of A. Bronson Alcott		plaster	1889	National Trust for Historic Preservation Stockbridge, Massachusetts
	Martin Milmore Memorial		bronze	1892	Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
	Angel of Death and the Sculptor		plaster	1891	Art Institute of Chicago	Destroyed 1949
	The Republic				1893 and 1918	A one third sized version of the 65 foot tall statue was placed in Jackson Park, Chicago in 1918:
French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.)	Columbian Quadriga		staff	c. 1892–1893		A modified version of this was formed of copper in 1906 as The Progress of the State at the Minnesota State Capitol.
	The Cart Horse Group		staff	1892-93	destroyed
	Teamster and Horse		staff	c. 1892–1893	destroyed	A rare use of an African-American model
	Statues of Plenty orBulls with Maidens or Ceres, grain and the Old World		staff	c. 1892–1893		A bronze version was erected in Humboldt Park, Chicago in 1912.
	Statues of Plenty or Bulls with Maidens or Native American Corn Goddess		staff	c. 1892–1893		A bronze version was erected in Humboldt Park, Chicago in 1912.
Johannes Gelert	The Little Architect^[3]		plaster	ca. 1882	unlocated
	The Struggle for Work^[4]		plaster	1892
	Theseus, Victor over the Minotaur^[5]		bronze	1886	private collection
	Bust of Abraham Lincoln		plaster	ca. 1892	a bronze version is in a private collection
Charles Grafly	A Bad Omen		plaster		unlocated
	Mauvais Présage		plaster	1891	Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art Wichita State University	study
	Daedalus		bronze	1889	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
	Pennsylvania Building: The Genius of Art		plaster	1893
Jonathan Scott Hartley	Pan		bronze	1885
	Bust of William Conant		bronze	1890	private collection
	John Gilbert as Sir Peter Teazle		bronze	1889	The Hampden-Booth Theatre Library Players Club, New York
Harriet R. Hyatt	Head of Laughing Girl		plaster		unlocated
Edward Kemeys	American Black Bear		bronze	1886	Art Institute of Chicago
	Battle of the Bulls		bronze	1890	unlocated
	American Panther and her Cubs		plaster	1878	National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution
	At Bay (Female Panther)
	A Prairie King
	Old Ephriam (Grizzly Bear)		bronze	1885	private collection
	Fighting Panther and Deer		bronze		private collection
	After the Feast		bronze	1878	private collection
	Texan Bull and Jaguars		bronze	1891	National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution
	Jaguar and Boa-constrictor		bronze	1877	private collection
	American Bay Lynx		bronze		unlocated
	Grappling His Game		plaster	before 1885	private collection
	The Still Hunt		bronze		private collection
Mary Lawrence	Christopher Columbus		staff	1892
Edmonia Lewis	Woman's Building: Bust of Hiawatha^[6]		marble	1868	Metropolitan Museum of Art	One of the few African-American artists who exhibited at the Exposition.
Edmonia Lewis	Woman's Building: Statuettes
Aloys Loeher	Bust of Jessie Bartlett Davis		marble		unlocated
Frederick MacMonnies	Columbian Fountain aka The Barge of State aka Columbia, Enthroned, is Propelled by the Arts and Sciences and Steered by Father Time.		staff	1892
Philip Martiny	Portrait bust of a child (Blanche Martiny)		plaster		unlocated
	Palace of Fine Arts (frieze figures): Architecture Painting Music Sculpture 2 winged caryatides		staff limestone (1920s)			Limestone replicas of the frieze figures were carved in the 1920s, when the building became the Museum of Science and Industry.

	Agricultural Building (architectural sculpture) McKim Mead & White, architects					Destroyed in a July 1894 fire
	Ceres groups (flanking the north and south porticoes)		staff
	Cattle and Horses groups (north and south facades)
	The Four Hemispheres groups (atop the 4 corner pavilions)					Corner pavilion (left):
	The Four Seasons groups (north and south facades, at the corners)
	Signs of the Zodiac (13 cornice figures, east and west facades)					Each figure held a plaque with a Zodiac sign:
Retta T. Matthews	Indiana		marble	1893	Indiana State Capitol, Indianapolis	Commissioned for the Indiana State Building
Larkin Goldsmith Mead
	Agricultural Building (architectural sculpture): The Triumph of Ceres (pedimental group on north façade)		staff			Agricultural Building north entrance: Destroyed in a July 1894 fire
	The Return of Proserpine from the Realms of Pluto (pedimental group on south façade)		staff			Destroyed in a July 1894 fire
Samuel Murray	Portrait bust of Walt Whitman		bronze	1892	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution
	Study of a child's head (William Brown)		bronze	1892	unlocated
	Study of a child's head (William Brown)		plaster	1892	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution
Blanche Nevin	Woman's Building (Gallery of Honor): Maud Muller^[7]		marble	c.1876	Iris Club, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Charles Henry Niehaus	Historical Door of Trinity Church		plaster			bronze versions at north door, Trinity Church, New York
Charles Henry Niehaus	Athlete (Caestus)^[8]		plaster	1883-85	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Cast in bronze, 1901
William Rudolf O'Donovan	Portrait bust of Thomas Eakins^[9]		bronze		unlocated
William Rudolf O'Donovan	Portrait bust of Robert Swain Gifford^[10]		bronze		unlocated
Richard Henry Park	Mines and Mining Building (Montana pavilion): Justice		Silver			The work was cast out of pure silver. The model for the figure was Ada Rehan.^[11]
William Ordway Partridge	William Shakespeare		plaster			Bronze version in Lincoln Park, Chicago:^[12]
	A Dream (Midsummer Night's Dream)		marble
	Madonna (Madonna in Her Maturity)		plaster		Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio



Bela Pratt	Genius of Navigation		staff	c. 1892–1893		Two copies of this work were made, placed at the front and back of the Peristyle. They were destroyed by the 1894 fire.
Bela Pratt	Genius of Discovery		staff	c. 1892–1893		Two copies of this work were made, placed at the front and back of the Peristyle
Vinnie Ream (Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie)	Woman's Building (Rotunda): The West aka The Virgin West		marble		Wisconsin State Capitol Madison, Wisconsin	also displayed at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876
	Woman's Building (Rotunda): America^[13]		marble	1870	State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines
	Woman's Building (Rotunda): Miriam^[14]		marble		Private collection
David Richards	Near Woman's Building: Hide and Seek			1893
Alice M. Rideout	Woman's Building (architectural sculpture): Pediment		staff			The pediment was 7 ft tall and 45 ft long
	Winged figures: Woman's Virtues Woman as the Spirit of Civilization Woman's Place in History
	Seated figures
Carl Rohl-Smith	Mato Wanartaka (Kicking Bear), Chief of the Sioux^[15]		plaster
	Portrait bust of Henry Watterson^[16]		bronze
	Electricity Building (main entrance): The Pioneer of Electric Science— Benjamin Franklin and His Kite		staff	1892-93		The Electricity Building at Night by Charles Graham: Presumed lost in a July 1894 fire
Augustus Saint-Gaudens	Diana finial of McKim, Mead and White's Agriculture Building		copper	1892-93		original destroyed, various smaller versions are listed in Diana
Anne Whitney	Roma		plaster	1893		bronze cast version (1890) in Davis Museum at Wellesley College
	Woman's Building:^[17] Leif Ericson^[18]		bronzed plaster	1889	National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.	The original bronze (1885–87) is in Boston, Massachusetts. A bronze replica (1887) is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	Woman's Building: Bust of Lucy Stone^[19]		marble	1893	Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
	Woman's Building (Library): Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe^[20]		marble	1892	Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut	Beside the bust (at far left in the photo) was a cabinet containing copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 42 languages.^[21]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Benjamin C. Truman, History of the World's Fair, Being a Complete Description of the World's Columbian Exposition from Its Inception (Chicago & Philadelphia: Mammoth Publishing Company, 1893).[1]
^ A.B. Farquhar, Catalogue of the Exhibits of the State of Pennsylvania and of Pennsylvanians at the World's Columbian Exposition (Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, July 1893), p. 267.[2]
^ The Little Architect, from SIRIS.
^ The Struggle for Work, from SIRIS.
^ Theseus, from SIRIS.
^ Bust of Hiawatha, from MMA.
^ Maude Muller, from SIRIS.
^ Caestus, from MMA.
^ Bust of Thomas Eakins, from SIRIS.
^ Bust of R. S. Gifford, from SIRIS.
^ Photographs of the World's Fair: An elaborate collection of photographs of the buildings grounds and exhibits of the World's Columbian Exposition with a special description of The Famous Midway Plaisance, The Werner Company. Chicago, 1893, p. 97.
^ William Shakespeare, from SIRIS.
^ America, from SIRIS.
^ Miriam, from SIRIS.
^ Mato Wanartaka, Chief of the Sioux, from SIRIS.
^ Bust of Henry Watterson, from SIRIS.
^ The Cosmopolitan (magazine), vol. 15, no. 5 (September 1893), p. 561.
^ Leif Ericson, from SIRIS.
^ Bust of Lucy Stone, from SIRIS.
^ Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, from SIRIS.
^ Rossiter Johnson, ed., A History of the World's Columbian Exposition (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897), p. 249.

Carr, Carolyn Kinder, et al., Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1993 pp. 356–383

[Truman-1] Benjamin C. Truman, History of the World's Fair, Being a Complete Description of the World's Columbian Exposition from Its Inception (Chicago & Philadelphia: Mammoth Publishing Company, 1893).[1]

[2] A.B. Farquhar, Catalogue of the Exhibits of the State of Pennsylvania and of Pennsylvanians at the World's Columbian Exposition (Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, July 1893), p. 267.[2]

[3] The Little Architect, from SIRIS.

[4] The Struggle for Work, from SIRIS.

[5] Theseus, from SIRIS.

[6] Bust of Hiawatha, from MMA.

[7] Maude Muller, from SIRIS.

[8] Caestus, from MMA.

[9] Bust of Thomas Eakins, from SIRIS.

[10] Bust of R. S. Gifford, from SIRIS.

[11] Photographs of the World's Fair: An elaborate collection of photographs of the buildings grounds and exhibits of the World's Columbian Exposition with a special description of The Famous Midway Plaisance, The Werner Company. Chicago, 1893, p. 97.

[12] William Shakespeare, from SIRIS.

[13] America, from SIRIS.

[14] Miriam, from SIRIS.

[15] Mato Wanartaka, Chief of the Sioux, from SIRIS.

[16] Bust of Henry Watterson, from SIRIS.

[17] The Cosmopolitan (magazine), vol. 15, no. 5 (September 1893), p. 561.

[18] Leif Ericson, from SIRIS.

[19] Bust of Lucy Stone, from SIRIS.

[20] Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, from SIRIS.

[21] Rossiter Johnson, ed., A History of the World's Columbian Exposition (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897), p. 249.

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Summary

Architectural sculpture edit

The sculptors and their works edit

See also edit

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