Replica of the Winged Figure from the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American Art
This figure of “Victory” was cast from the fourth version of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the first African American regiment raised in the North. The Massachusetts Fifty-fourth regiment was best known for its assault at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863.
In 1897 the black educator Booker T. Washington proclaimed that “all that this monument stands for will not be realized until . . . no man in all our land will be tempted to degrade himself by withholding from his black brother any opportunity which he himself would possess.”
In 1897 the black educator Booker T. Washington proclaimed that “all that this monument stands for will not be realized until . . . no man in all our land will be tempted to degrade himself by withholding from his black brother any opportunity which he himself would possess.”
MEDIUM
Gilded bronze
DATES
1884–1897
DIMENSIONS
34 3/4 × 118 7/8 × 11 1/8 in. (88.3 × 301.9 × 28.3 cm)
mount: 42 × 128 × 15 in. (106.7 × 325.1 × 38.1 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
23.288.1
CREDIT LINE
Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
High relief sculpture with female allegorical figure floating in horizontal position, face in 3/4 profile with eyes closed, proper left arm outstretched, she wears heavy robes and hood, holds branch of laurel leaves and posies in right arm.
Condition: Good.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848–1907). Replica of the Winged Figure from the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, 1884–1897. Gilded bronze, 34 3/4 × 118 7/8 × 11 1/8 in. (88.3 × 301.9 × 28.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 23.288.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 23.288.1_cropped_reference.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 23.288.1_cropped_reference.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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