Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter in TIME [May 10] stated that a double equestrian statue of Lee and Jackson which had been erected in Baltimore was thought to be the only one of its kind in the U.S. and perhaps in the world...
...double equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and a young soldier was erected by the Southern Memorial Association and unveiled by President Roosevelt in Lee Park at Dallas, Tex. It is a fine work of art by A. Phimister Proctor, who has just completed a group of horses called "The Mustangs" for the University of Texas campus...
...Secretary Kenneth Royall) to Army 5-in-1 rations (at the Quartermaster General's experimental kitchen). Brisk, soldierly and correct, he went out of his way to make friends, one day waddled into the White House to present President Truman with a gift from boss Peron-a small equestrian statue of Liberator Jose de San Martin. Along with the present went a little sales talk-a copy of Social Doctrine of President Peron inscribed by Juan Domingo to Harry Truman "with great affection...
...Baltimore, which had prayed for the Confederacy while Union troops held the city during the Civil War, reasserted its sentimental attachment to the South. Confederate flags flew and V.M.I, cadets paraded in full dress. Reason for the celebration: dedication of what Baltimore believed to be the "only double equestrian statue in the world"-a bronze work depicting the parting of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson on the eve of the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the dedicatory oration Douglas Southall Freeman, author of Lee's Lieutenants, called them the "greatest American combat team...
Saint-Gaudens' major works are landmarks spread out over the outdoors for all to see. The equestrian Sherman on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Chicago Lincoln, Boston's Shaw Memorial, and the memorial figure of grief in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, beneath which Henry Adams now lies buried with his wife, all show Saint-Gaudens' size. Critics are apt to regard his art, like Rodin's, as more pictorial than sculptural-it looks modeled rather than molded, and seems to hold some of the softness of clay. But it is art which exerts...