BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NGASHW_090704_065.JPG: Sketch for the Shaw Memorial 1883, plaster Augustus Saint-Gaudens Saint-Gaudens first met with the commissioners of the Shaw Memorial in 1882. By the next year, he had begun to work out his ideas for the monument in several drawings and small clay sketches (now lost). This plaster study from 1883 reveals that by this time the artist had already conceived the major elements of the memorial: the commander on horseback in the midst of his marching troops, the allegorical figure hovering above them, and the arched top containing the uniting them all.
2. NGASHW_090704_077.JPG: Early study of the allegorical figure, Shaw Memorial late 1880s, plaster Augustus Saint-Gaudens In creating the Shaw Memorial, Saint-Gaudens was especially challenged by the floating allegorical figure, which he reworked several times. This plaster sketch shows the figure prior to the addition of her attributes, an olive branch symbolic of peace, and poppies symbolic of death and remembrance. In later versions, the figure's face is in profile, increasing the sense of forward motion.
3. NGASHW_090704_080.JPG: Six studies for the heads of soldiers, Shaw Memorial 1883/1893, plaster Augustus Saint-Gaudens To represent the variety of soldiers, young and old, of all facial types, Saint-Gaudens searched out models in New York and Boston. In all, he sculpted some forty heads over the course of several years, sixteen of which he incorporated into the final relief. The six plaster heads exhibited here, cast from the artist's clay sketches, were not all used in the final memorial, but illustrate Saint-Gaudens' great sensitivity as a portraitist.
4. NGASHW_090704_114.JPG: Shaw Memorial, 1900, patinated plaster Augustus Saint-Gaudens The Latin inscription OMNIA RELINQUIT SERVARE REMPUBLICAM ("He Forsakes Everything to Preserve the Public Weal") is the motto of the Society of the Cincinnati. Its inclusion was suggested by Shaw's father, a member of the society, which was founded for Revolutionary War officers and their descendants. On the base of this cast, Saint-Gaudens incorrectly gives the date of the assault on Fort Wagner as the twenty-third rather than the eighteenth of July.
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Wikipedia Description: Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment is a bronze relief sculpture, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, located at 24 Beacon Street, in Boston Common.

The sculpture depicts the 54th Regiment marching down Beacon Street on May 28, 1863. The monument was unveiled on May 31, 1897.

The inscription reads:
(On face of relief:)
OMNIA RELINQVIT
SEVARE REMPVBLICAM

Translation from Latin to English: "He left behind everything to save the Republic."

On pedestal under the relief, lines from James Russell Lowell's poem "Memoriae Positum": "Right in the van of the red rampart's slippery / swell with heart that beat a charge he fell / forward as fits a man: but the high soul burns / on to light men's feet where death for noble / ends makes dying sweet."

Carved on back of monument, 1894 text by Charles W. Norton:
"The White Officers taking life and honor in their hands cast in their lot with men of a despised race unproven in war and risked death as inciters of servile insurrection if taken prisoners besides encountering all the common perils of camp march and battle. The Black rank and file volunteered when disaster clouded the Union Cause. Served without pay for eighteen months till given that of white troops. Faced threatened enslavement if captured. Were brave in action. Patient under heavy and dangerous labors. And cheerful amid hardships and privations. Together they gave to the Nation and the World undying proof that Americans of African descent possess the pride, courage and devotion of the patriot soldier. One hundred and eighty thousand such Americans enlisted under the Union Flag in MDCCCLXIII-MDCCCLXV.
signed"

Restored plaster cast at the National Gallery of Art:

A plaster cast, which exhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, is at the National Gallery of Art, on loan by the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.
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