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Henry Clay

n.d.

Joel T. Hart

Sculptor, American, 1810 - 1877

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Artwork overview

Medium

marble
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)
Dimensions

overall: 60.64 × 54.29 × 33.97 cm (23 7/8 × 21 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Accession

2015.19.3890

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Samuel P. Avery, Jr., New York); purchased January 1878 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

Loan for display with permanent collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, May - September 1940.

1968

American Neo-Classic Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, 28 May - 22 September 1968.

Bibliography

1968

Making of the Nation. New York, 1968: 231.

Wikidata ID

Q63864100

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