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Description: Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial

TitleRobert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial

Creator nameSaint-Gaudens, Augustus

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1897

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBronze

LocationBoston Common, Massachusetts

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSoldiers, BlackMorris Island, Battle of, S.C., 1863 (July 10-September 7)United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--MonumentsPublic sculpture, American--19th century

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Chapter 6: Common Soldiers

Kirk Savage

Description: Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century...

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)

SAMUEL WHITE’S modest monument to the “faithful slaves” of Fort Mill, South Carolina, with its little list of names meant to lift the former chattel out of historical oblivion, alerts us to one final, but decisive, shift in the history of nineteenth-century public monuments. This was the great enlargement of the commemorative sphere to...

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Kirk Savage

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.162-208

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Chapter subject tags:Slavery--HistorySculpture, American--19th centuryWar memorials--United StatesWard, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910Soldiers' monumentsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Soldiers, BlackHomer, Winslow, 1836-1910United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African AmericansSaint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907. Robert Gould Shaw memorialNational monuments--United StatesRacism--United States--History--19th century

Chapter 3. Thomas McKeller sous rature: John Singer Sargent’s Erasure of a Black Model

Nikki A. Greene

Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

In 1916, at Isabella Stewart Gardner’s home at Fenway Court, a British guest asked John Singer Sargent whether he was painting any portraits, and he stated with “a wry face”: “No. I’m only painting mountains and niggers.”Mount 1969, 337. Sargent’s racist comment deliberately...

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Nikki A. Greene

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.63-81

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00277.003

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Chapter subject tags:Racism in artBaldwin, James, 1924-1987Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979Artists' models, Black

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