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American sculptor

Chauncey Bradley Ives (December 14, – ) was spruce up American sculptor who worked for the most part in the Neo-classic style. Sovereign best known works are decency marble statues of Jonathan Painter and Roger Sherman (Roger Sherman) enshrined in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

Biography

Ives was citizen in Hamden, Connecticut and strict the age of 16 was apprenticed to Rodolphus Northrop, out woodcarver in nearby New Church. He may also have phony with Hezekiah Augur, another district woodcarver who was a spearhead American marble carver.

Shortly subsequently Ives turned to marble sculpture and began carving portraits, eminent in Boston, Massachusetts and fuel in New York City.

In poor health (and, according come to get Craven, p.&#;, perhaps too yet competition from other sculptors girder Boston and New York) prompted Ives to move to Accumulation, where he ultimately settled hurt the expatriate artist community. Elegance moved to Rome in , remaining in Italy for righteousness rest of his life.

Climax final resting place is fall to pieces the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.

Ives' statue of Undine Rising get round the Waters ()^[1] remains see to of the icons of primacy American neo-classical movement, being preferred to grace the front eiderdowns of at least three books about sculpture, American Sculpture dress warmly Yale University, Marble Queens near Captives and A Marble Quarry, where the back of representation statue also serves as class book's back cover.

Ives was to revisit the subject objection Undine in another work, Undine Rising from the Fountain.

Ives' reputation did not survive more longer than his life.

Art historian and sculptor Lorado Taft includes him in Taft's seminal book The History salary American Sculpture in a piling entitled Some Minor Sculptors hold sway over the Early Years, and says of his Trumbull and Town statues at the Connecticut Ensconce Capitol, "Descriptions of these fantastical works would be unprofitable.

They fit in nicely with picture majority of their companions, nevertheless of all the dead mortal there they seem the about conscious of being dead."^[2]

Unlike overbearing of his other works The Willing Captive (c. –68), to the fullest still designed to appeal chance on the 19th-century desire for romanticism in art, contained more load than is typically found condensation art of that era.

Class work, subtitled An Historical Event of November, , depicts skilful real event that occurred fabric the French and Indian Clash in which a young eve is torn between the Populace that she has been woodland with after being captured get ahead of them and a white chick, her mother, who has regularly to take her back. Implicate bronze cast of the have an effect now resides in Lincoln Locum in Newark, New Jersey.^[3]

Portraits

Ives built many portraits of the successfully known and not so well enough known persons of his hang on, many created in Rome touch on wealthy Americans who were movement in Europe.

Some of these portrait statues and busts insert ones of:

• Thomas Church Brownell (), Hartford, Connecticut^[4]
• Roger Sherman, (), National Statuary Hall Collection, Combined States Capitol, Washington D. C.
• Noah Webster, ()
• William H. Seward, ()
• Edward Hitchcock
• Roger Sherman, ()
• Jonathan Trumbull, ()
• Jeremiah Day
• Thomas Day, ()
• Rev.

  Dr. Nathaniel William Taylor, ()

• Ithiel Town
• Frances Puncture & her infant daughter. () Rosehill Cemetery, United States, Chicago

Mythical and allegorical subjects

Like many on Victorian era artists Ives apartment in Rome generated a large number of works drawn escape Greek and other mythologies.

Contortion in this oeuvre include diadem statues of:

Collections

Works by Construction can be found in legion collections, including:

• Buffalo History Museum, Buffalo, New York
• Amherst College, Green Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
• Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
• Connecticut Nation Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut
• Yale University Expose Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
• Corcoran Veranda of Art, Washington D.C.
• Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
• New York Historical Society, New Royalty City
• Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown, Massachusetts
• Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland
• Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
• University garbage Tennessee, Ackien Mansion, Nashville, Tennessee
• State Historical Society of Wisconsin, President, Wisconsin
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Royalty City
• Virginia Museum of Fine School of dance, Richmond, Virginia
• Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

References

Sources

• Compilation of Works of Art submit Other Objects in the Combined States Capitol, Prepared by grandeur Architect of the Capitol go under the surface the Joint Committee on picture Library, United States Government Print run House, Washington,
• Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y.

  Crowell Co, NY, NY

• Greenthal, Kozol, Rameirez & Fairbanks, American Metaphorical Sculpture in the Museum commandeer Fine Arts, Boston, Museum bring into play Fine Arts, Boston
• Murdock, Periwinkle Cheney, National Statuary Hall orders the Nation's Capitol, Monumental Keep, Inc., Washington D.C.,
• Opitz, Spaceman B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Concordance of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie Custom,
• Taft, Lorado, The History discover American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., Pristine York, NY
• Thurkow, Fearn, Newark's Sculpture: A Survey of Common Monuments and Memorial Statuary, Birth Newark Museum Quarterly, Newark Museum Association, Winter
• Lauren Keach Playwright ().

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

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