Pocahontas

Inscriptions

Signed, dated, and inscribed right side, on base, chiseled: "J. MOZIER. Sc: / ROME. 1868"; titled recto, on base, chiseled: "POCAHONTAS".

Publications

Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924), 109–110. 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), 201–202, no. 92. Kirk Savage, “Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman and the Meaning of the Civil War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 26–39, fig. 8.

Quick Overview

Artist: Joseph Mozier (American, 1812–1870)
Date: 1868
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 122 × 47.7 × 38.9 cm (48 × 18 3/4 × 15 5/16 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: sculpture
Place: Rome
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: The Roger McCormick and J. Peter McCormick funds
Accession no.: 1997.366

Provenance

Frank Brykowski, by 1939; by descent to Trudie Brykowksi, Lake Zurich, Ill.,; sold by her to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.