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Powers and his autograph, c. 1863
The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor. He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave.

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Hiram Powers

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Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor. He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international...

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Hiram Powers Dilworth

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Hiram Powers Dilworth (1878—1975) was an American pianist and poet. Dilworth was born in Hicksville, Ohio and had a career as a music educator beginning...

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The Greek Slave

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The Greek Slave is a marble sculpture by the American sculptor Hiram Powers. It was one of the best-known and critically acclaimed American artworks of...

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Depictions of nudity

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Malloy, Judy Powers. "Hiram Powers (1805-1873): Vermont-born Irish American Sculptor, who Lived and Worked in Florence, Italy". "Hiram Powers". Encyclopædia...

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A Modern Mephistopheles

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slave", which Elbert explains is an allusion to the Greek Slave statue by Hiram Powers. A professor of American literary and cultural studies at the University...

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Longworth Powers

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Italy. Powers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio as the eldest son of sculptor Hiram Powers. He spent one semester at the United States Military Academy at West...

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Preston Powers

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of Tuscany. He is also known as William Preston Powers. Powers studied with his father, Hiram Powers, a well known Neo-classical sculptor and expatriate...

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Persephone

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sites:Despoina DESPOINA from The Theoi Project Kore Photographs Flickr users' photos tagged with Persephone Proserpine (Persephone) sculpture by Hiram Powers...

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Tom Powers

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Powers was born in 1890 in Owensboro, Kentucky. His father, Colonel Joshua D. Powers, was a banker; his uncle was sculptor Hiram Powers. Tom Powers'...

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The Newark Museum of Art

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ancient world. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church...

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Potter Palmer

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Bust of Potter Palmer by Hiram Powers, 1871 (Art Institute of Chicago)...

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The Last of the Tribes

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The Last of the Tribes is a neo-classical sculpture by Hiram Powers (1805–1873). The sculpture was modelled between 1867 and 1872 from marble and depicts...

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Dilworth

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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Dilworth, Oklahoma, United States Hiram Powers Dilworth (1878—1975), American poet and piano player Isabel Craven Dilworth...

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Mintons

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the 1840s. It was further developed by Minton who employed John Bell, Hiram Powers and other famous sculptors to produce figures for reproduction. Mintons...

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Russel Crouse

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Born in Findlay, Ohio, Crouse was the son of Sarah (née Schumacher) and Hiram Powers Crouse, a newspaperman. He began his Broadway career in 1928 as an actor...

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Sculpture

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pinnacle occurred somewhat later and is exemplified in the sculptures of Hiram Powers. Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Benjamin Franklin, 1778, Metropolitan Museum...

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The Veiled Nun

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the January 1874 opening exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery along with Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave. For the next six decades, The Veiled Nun was listed...

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Dime museum

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Gee Mermaids" on a regular basis. Both John James Audubon and sculptor Hiram Powers produced displays for the Western Museum, organized by Dr Daniel Drake...

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Benjamin Franklin

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A statue of Franklin by Hiram Powers...

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Raby Castle

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Giordano Marcus Curtius leaping into the Gulf Jacopo Amigoni Frederick, Prince of Wales Thomas Barker The Woodman Returning Hiram Powers The Greek Slave...

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Neoclassicism

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exemplified in the sculptures of Horatio Greenough, Harriet Hosmer, Hiram Powers, Randolph Rogers and William Henry Rinehart. Neoclassical art was traditional...

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