Statue of Charles Sumner (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Statue of Charles Sumner
The statue in 2007
Map
ArtistAnne Whitney
SubjectCharles Sumner
LocationGeneral MacArthur Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′29″N 71°07′08″W / 42.37471°N 71.11881°W / 42.37471; -71.11881

A bronze statue of Charles Sumner, by sculptor Anne Whitney, is installed in General MacArthur Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] The plaster model for the statue is on display indoors at the Watertown public library.[2] The sculpture of Sumner, a popular local statesman, was commissioned by the Boston Art Committee shortly after his death in 1874.

History

In 1875, the Boston Art Committee hosted a blind competition[3][4][5] for model sculptures of Sumner.[6] Whitney knew Sumner, a senator and abolitionist,[6] through her brother Alexander, who had been a classmate of Sumner's. She depicted him seated in a chair, in part because of the artistic practice of portraying people seated to "represent dignity and something of state."[7] She won the contest, including some prize money,[8] however when the judges realized they had selected a work made by a woman, they decided it would be inappropriate for a woman to sculpt a man's legs, and rejected it for installation. They selected a different sculpture by Thomas Ball, which was installed in the Boston Public Garden.[3][4][5]

Both the Sumners and the Whitneys were disappointed by this turn of events, but Whitney wrote in a letter, "Bury your grievance; it will take more than the Boston Art committee to quench me."[6] She exhibited the model of Sumner at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia, and elsewhere around the country.[7] Following an 1879 exhibit of the model, the New York Evening Post wrote of the judge's decision, "Think of a woman bringing her mind to bear on the legs of a man-even if those legs were inside a pair of stone trousers!" The New York Evening Telegram wrote a verse which starts:

"You see, ’tis a fixed law of art, my friend,
 That only a man can superintend
 The play of muscle and post of limb,
 Whenever a statue is made of him. ...

Yet under the dome of the Capitol
Stands Samuel Adams erect and tall,
As free as his namesake before the fall;
And though the image was carved by woman
Rarely is marble so grandly human."[7]

In 1902, an anonymous donor funded the casting of the statue, and friends arranged for its installation in General MacArthur Square, by Harvard Square.

References

  1. ^ "A Tale of Two Statues | Magazine | the Harvard Crimson".
  2. ^ "Statue of Charles Sumner by Anne Whitney". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  3. ^ a b Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer; Radcliffe College (1971). "Whitney, Anne". Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 600–601. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.
  4. ^ a b "Back Bay East". Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Charles Sumner". Boston Public Arts Commission. Archived from the original on October 3, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Anne Whitney". Watertown, Massachusetts Government site. Retrieved February 8, 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ a b c Eleanor Tufts (1992). "An American Victorian Dilemma, 1875: Should a Woman Be Allowed to Sculpt a Man?". Art Journal. 51 (1): 51–56. doi:10.1080/00043249.1992.10791552.
  8. ^ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (December 19, 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. pp. 576–577. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.

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