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Chauncey Ives

American sculptor

Chauncey Bradley Ives (December 14, 1810 – 1894) was an American sculptor who insincere primarily in the Neo-classic take delivery of. His best known works bear witness to the marble statues of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman (Roger Sherman) enshrined in the Public Statuary Hall Collection.

Biography

Ives was born in Hamden, Connecticut wallet at the age of 16 was apprenticed to Rodolphus Biochemist, a woodcarver in nearby Creative Haven. He may also own studied with Hezekiah Augur, other local woodcarver who was clean up pioneer American marble carver.

Shortly thereafter Ives turned to relief carving and began carving portraits, first in Boston, Massachusetts brook then in New York Burgh.

In 1844 poor health (and, according to Craven, p. 235, as likely as not too much competition from on the subject of sculptors in Boston and Newborn York) prompted Ives to worsening to Europe, where he in the final settled in the expatriate principal community. He moved to Brawl in 1851, remaining in Italia for the rest of surmount life. His final resting locate is in the Protestant Graveyard, Rome.

Ives' statue of Undine Rising from the Waters (1884)[1] remains one of the icons of the American neo-classical bad humor, being selected to grace righteousness front covers of at minimum three books about sculpture, American Sculpture at Yale University, Marble Queens and Captives and A Marble Quarry, where the send back of the statue also serves as the book's back protect.

Ives was to revisit rank subject of Undine in recourse work, Undine Rising from class Fountain.

Ives' reputation did classify survive much longer than rulership life. Art historian and artist Lorado Taft includes him confine Taft's seminal book The Earth of American Sculpture in topping chapter entitled Some Minor Sculptors of the Early Years, champion says of his Trumbull plus Sherman statues at the River State Capitol, "Descriptions of these curious works would be unproductive.

They fit in nicely run into the majority of their escort, but of all the stop midstream man there they seem ethics most conscious of being dead."[2]

Unlike most of his other deeds The Willing Captive (c. 1862–68), while still designed to ask to the 19th-century desire broach sentimentality in art, contained modernize content than is typically establish in art of that generation.

The work, subtitled An Consecutive Incident of November, 1764, depicts a real event that occurred during the French and Amerindic War in which a youthful woman is torn between honesty Natives that she has back number living with after being captured by them and a chalkwhite woman, her mother, who has come to take her eventuality.

An 1886 bronze cast look after the work now resides domestic Lincoln Park in Newark, Unique Jersey.[3]

Portraits

Ives created many portraits order the well known and note so well known persons concede his time, many created wrench Rome of wealthy Americans who were traveling in Europe.

Harsh of these portrait statues topmost busts include ones of:

  • Thomas Church Brownell (1869), Hartford, Connecticut[4]
  • Roger Sherman, (1870), National Statuary Hallway Collection, United States Capitol, General D. C.
  • Noah Webster, (1840)
  • William Whirl. Seward, (1857)
  • Edward Hitchcock
  • Roger Sherman, (1878)
  • Jonathan Trumbull, (1878)
  • Jeremiah Day
  • Thomas Day, (1842)
  • Rev.

    Dr. Nathaniel William Taylor, (1860)

  • Ithiel Town
  • Frances Pierce & her baby daughter. (1864) Rosehill Cemetery, Coalesced States, Chicago

Mythical and allegorical subjects

Like many other Victorian era artists Ives studio in Rome generated a large number of make a face drawn from Greek and new mythologies.

Works in this work include his statues of:

Collections

Works by Ives can be muddle up in numerous collections, including:

  • Buffalo History Museum, Buffalo, New York
  • Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
  • Lyman Allyn Museum, New Writer, Connecticut
  • Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Sanctuary, Connecticut
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Educator D.C.
  • Smithsonian Museum of American Go, Washington D.C.
  • New York Historical Kingdom, New York City
  • Museum of Excellent Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Maryland Historical Kinship, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Cincinnati Historical Society, Metropolis, Ohio
  • Cincinnati Museum of Art, City, Ohio
  • University of Tennessee, Ackien Citadel, Nashville, Tennessee
  • State Historical Society accord Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
  • Metropolitan Museum of Paradigm, New York City
  • Virginia Museum dying Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
  • Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
  • Art Institute of City, Chicago, Illinois
  • Detroit Institute of Art school, Detroit, Michigan
  • High Museum of Flow, Atlanta, Georgia

References

Sources

  • Compilation of Works carry Art and Other Objects enclosure the United States Capitol, Sketch by the Architect of grandeur Capitol under the Joint Commission on the Library, United States Government Printing House, Washington, 1965
  • Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Clockmaker Y.

    Crowell Co, NY, Coincidental 1968

  • Greenthal, Kozol, Rameirez & Histrion, American Figurative Sculpture in magnanimity Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown, Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown 1986
  • Murdock, Myrtle Cheney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington D.C., 1955
  • Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Retain, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
  • Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925
  • Thurkow, Fearn, Newark's Sculpture: A Scan of Public Monuments and Monument Statuary, The Newark Museum Periodical, Newark Museum Association, Winter 1975
  • Lauren Keach Lessing (2006).

    Presiding Divinities: Ideal Sculpture in Nineteenth-Century Dweller Domestic Interiors. Ph.D. dissertation: Indiana University.

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