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Abdiel
Provenance
Elizabeth G.H. Bartol, Boston, from 1843 to 1894; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894.
Publications
Henry Tuckerman, A Memorial to Horatio Greenough (New York, 1853), ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum: Sculpture and Painting (Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), 61, cat. 492. George Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture, part 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 77, cat. 911, as Abdiel, the Faithful Angel. Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924), 51, 54, fig. 5 (ill.). Horatio Greenough, The Travels, Observations, and Experience of a Yankee Stonecutter (Gainesville, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1958). Nathalia Wright, Horatio Greenough: The First American Sculptor (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963). Neil Harris, The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years, 1790–1860 (New York, G. Braziller, 1966). Sculpture in America (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968). Frances Greenough, ed., Letters of Horatio Greenough (New York, Kennedy Graphics/Da Capo Press, 1970). Sylvia Crane, White Silence: Greenough, Powers, and Crawford, American Sculptors in Nineteenth Century Italy (University of Miami Press, 1972). Letters of Horatio Greenough, American Sculptor (University of Wisconsin Press, 1972). William Gerdts, American Neoclassic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection (Viking, 1973). Wayne Craven, “Images of a Nation in Wood, Marble, and Bronze: American Sculpture from 1776–1900,” Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, exh. cat., (Whitney Museum of American Art/David R. Godine, 1976), ill. Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 25, no. 31. John S. Crawford, “The Classical Tradition in American Sculpture: Structure and Surface,” American Art Journal 11 (July 1979), 38–54. Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques (Lakeside Group, 1988), 24, fig. 8. Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35, pl. 8. Janet Headley, English Literary and Aesthetic Influences on American Sculptors in Italy, 1825–75 (Unpublished diss., University of Maryland, 1988). “Horatio Greenough’s Heroic Subjects: Abdiel and David,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991), 33–48 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 155–57, no. 68.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Horatio Greenough (American, 1805–1852)
- Date
- 1838–43
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- H.: 61 cm (24 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Elizabeth G. H. Bartol
- Accession no.
- 1894.562
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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