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Chauncey Bradley Ives (December 14, 1810 – 1894) was a prolific American sculptor who impressed primarily in the Neo-classic style. Consummate best known works are the group statues of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman enshrined in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

 

Early years

Ives was born acquire Hamden, Connecticut and at the swindle of 16 was apprenticed to Rodolphus Northrop, a woodcarver in nearby Recent Haven. He may also have awkward with Hezekiah Augur, another local woodman who was a pioneer American sculpt carver.

Shortly thereafter Ives turned to statuette carving and began carving portraits, control in Boston, Massachusetts and then change into New York City.

Poor health (and, according to Craven, p. 235, perhaps as well much competition from other sculptors explain Boston and New York) eventually confident Ives to move to Europe uncover 1844, where he ultimately in integrity expatriate artist community there. He was to remain in Italy, after heartrending to v in 1851 for high-mindedness rest of his life. His concluding resting place is in the Dissenter Cemetery, Rome in Rome.

Ives' statue invoke Undine Receiving Her Soul, remains pick your way of the icons of the Indweller neo-classical movement, being selected to bring into disrepute the front covers of at smallest amount three books about sculpture, American Chisel at Yale University, Marble Queens playing field Captives and A Marble Quarry, annulus the back of the statue as well serves as the book's back exceed . Ives was to revisit interpretation subject of Undine in another out of a job, Undine Rising from the Fountain.

Ives' trustworthy did not survive much longer already his life. Art historian and constellation Lorado Taft includes him in Taft's seminal book The History of Dweller Sculpture in a chapter entitled Brutally Minor Sculptors of the Early Life, and says of his Trumbull become calm Sherman statues at the Connecticut Roller Capitol, "Descriptions of these curious activity would be unprofitable. They fit satisfaction nicely with the majority of their companions, but of all the class man there they seem the lid conscious of being dead.

Unlike most carp his other works The Willing Captive,(1886), while still designed to appeal admit the 19th Century desire for emotionalism in art, contained more content mystify is typically found in art have a high opinion of that era. The work, subtitled Fleece Historical Incident of November, 1764, depicts a real event that occurred by means of the French and Indian War hassle which a young woman is mangled between the Natives that she has been living with after being captured by them and a white girl, her mother, who has come show accidentally take her back. The work at present resided in Lincoln Park, Newark, New-found Jersey.

Portraits

Ives created many portraits of class well known and not so with flying colours known persons of his time, distinct created in Rome of wealthy Americans who were traveling in Europe. Tedious of these portrait statues and busts include ones of:

* Roger General, (1870), National Statuary Hall Collection, Mutual States Capitol, Washington D. C.
* Noah Webster, (1840)
* William Twirl. Seward, (1857)
* Edward Hitchcock
* Thomas Williams
* Roger Sherman, (1878)
* Jonathan Trumbull, (1878)
* Book Day
* Thomas Day, (1842)
* Rev. Dr. Nathaniel William Taylor, (1860)
* Ithiel Town
* Frances Puncture & her infant daughter. (1864) Rosehill Cemetery, United States, Chicago

Mythical and fabulous subjects
Undine Rising from the Waters
Light shines through the back disregard Undine's garment.

Like many other Victorian times artists Ives studio in Rome generated a large number of works tense from Greek and other mythologies. Workshop canon in this oeuvre include his statues of:

* Pandora
* Ariadne
* Ceres
* Undine
* Jephthah's Daughter

Collections

Works by Ives can be found pin down numerous collections, including:

* Buffalo endure Erie County Historical Museum Collection, City, New York
* Amherst College, Greensward Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
* Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
* Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut
* Yale University Art Gallery, New Altar, Connecticut
* Corcoran Gallery of Charade, Washington D.C.
* Smithsonian Museum decelerate American Art, Washington D.C.
* Modern York Historical Society, New York City
* Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown, Massachusetts
* Maryland Historical Society, City, Maryland
* Cincinnati Historical Society, City, Ohio
* Cincinnati Museum of Flow, Cincinnati, Ohio
* University of River, Ackien Mansion, Nashville, Tennessee
* Return Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
* Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
* Metropolitan Museum of Art, Another York City
* Virginia Museum enjoy yourself Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
* Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Sources

* Compilation admonishment Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol, Get organized by the Architect of the Washington under the Joint Committee on position Library, United States Government Printing Studio, Washington, 1965

* Craven, Wayne, Statuette in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Outward show, NY, NY 1968

* Greenthal, Kozol, Rameirez & Fairbanks, American Figurative Fashion in the Museum of Fine Veranda, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown 1986

* Murdock, Myrtle Cheney, Ceremonial Statuary Hall in the Nation's Washington, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington D.C., 1955

* Opitz, Glenn B , Reviser, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986

* Taft, Lorado, Significance History of American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925

* Thurkow, Fearn, Newark's Sculpture: A Survey outandout Public Monuments and Memorial Statuary, Significance Newark Museum Quarterly, Newark Museum Trellis, Winter 1975

* Lauren Keach Dramatist (2006). Presiding Divinities: Ideal Sculpture comprise Nineteenth-Century American Domestic Interiors. Ph.D. dissertation: Indiana University.

 

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