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Horatio Greenough

Horatio Greenough

1805–1852
WA-00013342
Sculpture
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
10
Works in Collection
29
Assets Indexed
5
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
70%
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Authority Records (1)

Field Verification (3 fields)

3 cross-verified · 0 single-source
  • Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
  • NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
  • Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓

Source Registry (1)

  • Artist Index
    Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%
About

Why this artist matters now

Horatio Greenough was an American sculptor whose monumental public commissions defined neoclassical ideals in nineteenth-century United States sculpture. His marble works, including The Rescue (1837, 1850) and George Washington (1840), were executed as government commissions and established a vocabulary of heroic figuration and allegorical narrative in stone. Greenough's approach to large-scale public sculpture set a precedent for commemorative practice in American civic spaces.

Source: Artist Index · Trust score: 35% · Updated 2mo ago

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Artworks (10)

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Artwork sources (4)

10 published of 10 catalogued · 8 with image
  • Nga
    5 published5 img
  • The Met
    2 published
  • Smithsonian
    2 published2 img
  • Art Institute Chicago
    1 published1 img
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Images

14 assets
Horatio Greenough (1852)
Smithsonian Institution
Horatio Greenough (1829)
Smithsonian Institution
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Rembrandt Peale Horatio Greenough NPG.82.106 National Portrait Gallery
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George Washington MET DP225538
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Horatio Greenough (NYPL Hades 255459 431366)
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Eminent Americans comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history (1886) (14596253850)
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Abdiel Greenough2
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Relationships

4
Collections4
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtSmithsonian American Art MuseumArt Institute of ChicagoNational Gallery of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Art Institute of Chicago
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National Gallery of Art
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