Sketch Model of a Soldier's Head for the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment Memorial

modeled 1883–93, cast 1965 after plaster original

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 5 3/8 × 3 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (13.65 × 8.26 × 11.43 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the William Platt family
Accession Number: 2015.4.1.1
Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

William Platt, to his children Charles A. Platt, Eleanor Platt Caldwell, and Clarissa Platt Palmer

Bibliography

American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 150–51, no. 66, ill.

Molly Eckel, "Model Citizens: Four Studies for Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Robert Gould Shaw Memorial," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 51, fig. 2

"Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 13

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Additional information

Object/Work type

busts (sculpture), heads (representations), human figures (visual works), military history, portraits

memorials soldiers

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