
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001864America
by Hiram Powers
Provenance
Ellen E. Powers, (the artist's daughter), Florence, Italy, to 1910; sold by her to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.
Exhibition history
Beloit College, Wis., Theodore Lyman Wright Art Center, 1932–1972.
Publications
Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924). Merle Curti, “The Impact of the Revolutions of 1848 on American Thought,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93, 3 (June 1949), 209–15. Sculpture in American (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968). Sylvia Crane, White Silence: Greenough, Powers, and Crawford, American Sculptors in Nineteenth Century Italy (University of Miami Press, 1972). William Gerdts, American Neoclassic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection (New York, 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, 1976). Joshua Taylor, “America as Symbol,” America as Art (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976). Donald Reynolds, Hiram Powers and His Ideal Sculpture (Garland, 1977). Vivien Green Fryd, “Hiram Power’s America: ‘Triumphant as Liberty and in Unity,” American Art Journal 18, 2 (1986), 55–75 (ill.). Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35. P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805–1873 (University of Delaware Press, 1991). Art Bulletin 74, 4 (Dec. 1992), 687–90. Albert Boime, The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento (University of Chicago Press, 1993), 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), 166–168, no. 73. Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 13, pl. 1.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hiram Powers (American, 1805–1873)
- Date
- 1850–54
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 74 × 52.4 × 34.7 cm (29 1/8 × 20 5/8 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 1910.30
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