Clinker (Model for Relief for Brooklyn Memorial Arch)

Gallery 215, American Art, second floor

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Clinker (Model for Relief for Brooklyn Memorial Arch)

1892

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

When the sculptor William R. O'Donovan was commissioned in 1891 to make bronze equestrian reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, he asked Eakins to create models for the horses. After making this plaster model, Eakins scratched in the grid lines seen here to guide him in constructing the final, life-size plaster version, which was then cast in bronze.

Gallery 215, American Art, second floor

Object Details

Title:

Clinker (Model for Relief for Brooklyn Memorial Arch)

Date:

1892

Artist:

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Medium:

Painted plaster, wire armature, muslin

Dimensions:

25 3/4 x 25 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (65.4 x 65.4 x 11.4 cm)

Classification:

Plaques/Reliefs/Tiles

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Center for American Art Fund, 2009

Accession Number:

2009-83-1

Geography:

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Gallery 215, American Art, second floor

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