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- 7THREG_110529_05.JPG: 7th Regiment Memorial
This statue honors the 58 men of the 7th Regiment who died defending the Union during the Civil War. Created by American sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, the bronze pieces depicts an American soldier, hands at rest on his rifle.
Officers and members of the regiment funded the sculpture with more than $40,000 in contributions. Ward himself unveiled the piece during its dedication in June 1874, following an elaborate military parade The New York Times described as, "one of the most interesting and attractive that the City of New York has witnessed in some time." The statue stands today in its original spot - a grassy incline overlooking the Park's nearby West Loop.
- 7THREG_110529_32.JPG: 7th Regiment Memorial
This statue honors the 58 men of the 7th Regiment who died defending the Union during the Civil War. Created by American sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, the bronze pieces depicts an American soldier, hands at rest on his rifle.
Officers and members of the regiment funded the sculpture with more than $40,000 in contributions. Ward himself unveiled the piece during its dedication in June 1874, following an elaborate military parade The New York Times described as, "one of the most interesting and attractive that the City of New York has witnessed in some time." The statue stands today in its original spot - a grassy incline overlooking the Park's nearby West Loop.
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- Wikipedia Description: Seventh Regiment Memorial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seventh Regiment Memorial is an outdoor bronze sculpture honoring the members of that regiment who's lives were forfeited during the Civil War. The statue was created by John Quincy Adams Ward and the base was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Although the statue is dated 1869 the monument was not unveiled until June 22, 1874.
Ward likely received the commission in 1867, the rest of funding by the Seventh Regiment Monument Association, and by the spring of 1868 he had model prepared. Initially Hunt had envisioned and designed a much larger monument, one with at least five figures, seen as being a part of a "Warrior Gate" to Central Park. However the park's architects, Olmsted and Vaux, had already clashed with Hunt over matters of aesthetics with the result that Hunt's grand scheme of a series of showy Beaux-Arts entrances to the park was reduced to the Seventh Regiment Memorial.
Although critic Wayne Craven considers the work "a failure", stating,""neither the 'Shakespeare' nor the 'Seventh Regiment Soldier' were portrait statues in the usual sense, and their in lies the explanation for their failures. Ward often lacked the vision to create a successful imaginary portrait, and his images of men who could actually stand before him were, as a rule, much stronger as works of art" the soldier in the monument was modeled by actor, and veteran of the Regiment Steele MacKaye, who wore his own uniform to pose in.
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