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Chauncey Bradley Ives (December 14, 1810 – 1894) was an American sculptor who worked primarily in the Neo-classic style. His best known works are the marble statues of
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and Roger Sherman ('' Roger Sherman'') enshrined in the National Statuary Hall Collection.


Early years

Ives was born in Hamden, Connecticut and at the age of 16 was apprenticed to Rodolphus Northrop, a woodcarver in nearby New Haven. He may also have studied with
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, another local woodcarver who was a pioneer American marble carver. Shortly thereafter Ives turned to marble carving and began carving portraits, first in Boston, Massachusetts and then in New York City. Poor health (and, according to Craven, p. 235, perhaps too much competition from other sculptors in Boston and New York) eventually convinced Ives to move to Europe in 1844, where he ultimately settled in the expatriate artist community there. He was to remain in Italy, after moving to Rome in 1851 for the rest of his life. His final resting place is in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome in Rome. Ives' statue of '' Undine Rising from the Waters'' (1884) remains one of the icons of the American neo-classical movement, being selected to grace the front covers of at least three books about sculpture, ''American Sculpture at Yale University'', ''Marble Queens and Captives'' and ''A Marble Quarry'', where the back of the statue also serves as the book's back cover. Ives was to revisit the subject of Undine in another work, ''Undine Rising from the Fountain''. Ives' reputation did not survive much longer than his life. Art historian and sculptor Lorado Taft includes him in Taft's seminal book ''The History of American Sculpture'' in a chapter entitled ''Some Minor Sculptors of the Early Years'', and says of his
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and
Sherman Sherman most commonly refers to: *Sherman (name), a surname and given name (and list of persons with the name) ** William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General *M4 Sherman, a tank Sherman may also refer to: Places United St ...
statues at the Connecticut State Capitol, ''"Descriptions of these curious works would be unprofitable. They fit in nicely with the majority of their companions, but of all the dead man there they seem the most conscious of being dead."'' Unlike most of his other works ''The Willing Captive'' (c. 1862–68), while still designed to appeal to the 19th Century desire for sentimentality in art, contained more content than is typically found in art of that era. The work, subtitled ''An Historical Incident of November, 1764'', depicts a real event that occurred during the French and Indian War in which a young woman is torn between the Natives that she has been living with after being captured by them and a white woman, her mother, who has come to take her back. An 1886 bronze cast of the work now resides in
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in Newark, New Jersey.


Portraits

Ives created many portraits of the well known and not so well known persons of his time, many created in Rome of wealthy Americans who were traveling in Europe. Some of these portrait statues and busts include ones of: * Thomas Church Brownell (1869),
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* Roger Sherman, (1870), National Statuary Hall Collection, United States Capitol,
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* Noah Webster, (1840) * William H. Seward, (1857) *
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* Roger Sherman, (1878) *
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, (1878) * Jeremiah Day *
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, (1842) *Rev. Dr. Nathaniel William Taylor, (1860) * Ithiel Town * Frances Pierce & her infant daughter. (1864) Rosehill Cemetery, United States, Chicago


Mythical and allegorical subjects

Like many other Victorian era artists Ives studio in Rome generated a large number of works drawn from Greek and other mythologies. Works in this oeuvre include his statues of: *
Pandora In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: , derived from , ''pān'', i.e. "all" and , ''dōron'', i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or "all-giving") was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. As Hes ...
* Ariadne *
Ceres Ceres most commonly refers to: * Ceres (dwarf planet), the largest asteroid * Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture Ceres may also refer to: Places Brazil * Ceres, Goiás, Brazil * Ceres Microregion, in north-central Goiás st ...
* Undine * Jephthah's Daughter *
Rebecca Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical ...
at the Well *Nursing the Infant
Bacchus In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans ...
*Flora * Egeria *The Hebrew Captive * Ruth


Collections

Works by Ives can be found in numerous collections, including: *
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, Buffalo, New York *
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, Mead Art Museum,
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*Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut * Connecticut State Capitol,
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* Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut * Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. * Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. *
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, New York City * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts *
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,
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*Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio * Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio * University of Tennessee, Ackien Mansion, Nashville, Tennessee *State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin * Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City * Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
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* Chrysler Museum,
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*
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, Chicago, Illinois * Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan * High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia


References


Sources

*''Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol'', Prepared by the Architect of the Capitol under the Joint Committee on the Library, United States Government Printing House, Washington, 1965 *Craven, Wayne, ''Sculpture in America'', Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, NY 1968 *Greenthal, Kozol, Rameirez & Fairbanks, ''American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts'', Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1986 *Murdock, Myrtle Cheney, ''National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol'', Monumental Press, Inc., Washington D.C., 1955 *Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, ''Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 *Taft, Lorado, ''The History of American Sculpture'', MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925 *Thurkow, Fearn, ''Newark's Sculpture: A Survey of Public Monuments and Memorial Statuary'', The Newark Museum Quarterly, Newark Museum Association, Winter 1975 *


External links


Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Ives (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ives, Chauncey Bradley 1810 births 1894 deaths 19th-century American sculptors American male sculptors People from Hamden, Connecticut Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome Sculptors from Connecticut 19th-century American male artists