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Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants. Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1 ...
Zerubbabel Collins. Zerubbabel Collins (1733–1797) was a carver of stone gravestones in New England in the 18th century. He has been called "one of the most important carvers represented in Vermont in the years after the American Revolution" [1] and "one of the most talented [gravestone carvers] of his time". [2]
Tombstone Carver, Soldier in French and Indian War & American Revolutionary War. Years active. 1747−1798. Gershom Bartlett (February 19, 1723 – December 23, 1798) was a stone carver who carved tombstones in colonial Connecticut and Vermont. His carved gravestones are widespread in colonial burying grounds in eastern Connecticut as well as ...
William M. Edmondson. December 1874. Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee. Died. February 7, 1951. Nashville, Tennessee. Occupation. Sculptor. William Edmondson (c. 1874–1951) was the first African-American folk art sculptor to be given a one-person show exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1937).
Prominent New England grave carver active between 1748 and 1798 in Bolton, Connecticut, and Pompanoosuc, Vermont. Tombstone dated 1756 carved by Gershom Bartlett. Robert Beall (1836–1892) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, sculptor of fonts, pulpits and reredoses. Also a monumental mason. Carlo Bergamini (1870–1934), Italian-New Zealander
29 Thames Street. Coordinates. 41°29′33.88″N 71°18′56.09″W / 41.4927444°N 71.3155806°W / 41.4927444; -71.3155806. Owner. Nicholas Benson. The John Stevens Shop, founded in 1705, is a stone carving business on Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island, that is one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in the United ...
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by ...
The Piccirilli brothers were an Italian family of renowned marble carvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French ’s colossal Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.