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Horatio Greenough

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Horatio Greenough (1805 - 1852) was active/lived in Massachusetts / Italy.  Horatio Greenough is known for Marble portrait sculpture.

Horatio Greenough, described as the "first American to make sculpture his exclusive profession" (Tolles, 3) was born in Boston.  He was one of the earliest American artists to receive a national commission.

Urged by his wealthy family and by the painter Washington Allston to study art, Greenough, after graduation from Harvard, went to Italy in 1825 for two years.  He made a second trip in 1828, and this time remained until a year before his death.

Greenough is best known for his toga and sandal-clad statue of George Washington, inspired by the statue of Zeus at Olympia by the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias.

Commissioned by Congress in 1832, the Washington sculpture was designed to stand in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, but depicting a national hero in semi-nudity aroused such controversy that the statue was removed to the Smithsonian Institution.

While working in Washington D.C., Greenough was friends with the portraitist Charles Bird   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2017 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  74
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Horatio Greenough
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Sculpture from Brookgreen Gardens August 1997 Salmon, Robin R Yes
74 Book References for Horatio Greenough
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865 451 Yes
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Lubin, David M Picturing a Nation Art and Social Change in 19th Century America 364 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Fryd, Vivien Green Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860 273 No
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1991 Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro) Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Bloch, E Maurice Faces and Figures in American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1988 Danly, Susan/Leo Marx The Railroad in American Art Representations of Technological Change 218 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1973 McClanathan, Richard Art in America A Brief History 216 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1972 Wright, Nathalia (editor) Letters of Horatio Greenough American Sculptor 456 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Greenough, Frances (ed) Letters of Horatio Greenough 250 No
1970 Lynes, Russell The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America 514 No
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
1969 Greenough, H/H A Small (ed) Form and Function Remarks on Art, Design and Architecture 136 No
1969 Myron, Robert/Abner Sundell Art In America From Colonial Days Through the Nineteenth Century 186 No
1969 Richardson, Edgar P The Way of Western Art 1776-1914 204 No
1968 Brewington, M V and Dorothy The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum 530 Yes
1968 Dickson, Harold E Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
(Exhibition catalog)		 234 No
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1967 Oliver, Andrew The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams 284 No
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Harris, Neil The Artist in American Society The Formative Years 432 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1963 Wright, Nathalia Horatio Greenough The First American Sculptor 432 No
1961 Dorra, Henri American Muse, The 163 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1944 Gardner, Albert T. E. Yankee Stonecutters: The First American School of Sculpture, 1800-1850 0 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1927 Fairman, Charles E Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America 0 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
1916 Brinton, Christian Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 203 No
1853 Tuckerman, Henry T A Memorial of Horatio Greenough 248 No
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