The Artist's Brother - Richard Greenough (?)
1850 · pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper
sheet: 22.4 × 14.9 cm (8 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Horatio Greenough
1805
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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.
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