America by Hiram Powers
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America

Hiram Powers · 1850–54

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Ellen E. Powers, (the artist's daughter), Florence, Italy, to 1910; sold by her to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Beloit College, Wis., Theodore Lyman Wright Art Center, 1932–1972.

Literature

Published references

  • Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924).
  • Merle Curti, “The Impact of the Revolutions of 1848 on American Thought,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93, 3 (June 1949), 209–15.
  • Sculpture in American (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968).
  • Sylvia Crane, White Silence: Greenough, Powers, and Crawford, American Sculptors in Nineteenth Century Italy (University of Miami Press, 1972).
  • William Gerdts, American Neoclassic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection (New York, 1973).
  • Wayne Craven, “Images of a Nation in Wood, Marble, and Bronze: American Sculpture from 1776–1900,” Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, exh. cat., (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976).
  • Joshua Taylor, “America as Symbol,” America as Art (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976).
  • Donald Reynolds, Hiram Powers and His Ideal Sculpture (Garland, 1977).
  • Vivien Green Fryd, “Hiram Power’s America: ‘Triumphant as Liberty and in Unity,” American Art Journal 18, 2 (1986), 55–75 (ill.).
  • Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35.
  • P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805–1873 (University of Delaware Press, 1991).
  • Art Bulletin 74, 4 (Dec. 1992), 687–90.

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