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20-593: The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 statue by American artist Augustus Lukeman of a nymph gazing over a calm expanse of water in memory of Ida and Isidor Straus , husband and wife, he a United States congressman and co-owner of Macy's , who died together on RMS  Titanic . The model for the statue was Audrey Munson . On the memorial is carved a passage from Second Samuel 1:23, "Lovely and pleasant were they in their lives and in their death they were not parted." The passage refers to Ida's choice to stay with her beloved husband, Isidor, rather than get safely into

40-627: A commitment that would last for a decade and a half, during which time he would also begin to execute his own commissions, eventually opening his own studio in New York. When construction of the World's Columbian Exposition began in 1893, Lukeman would superintend enlarging some important works for French , for instance, the Statue of the Republic . Lukeman's independent work began in this new studio, and included

60-483: A globe, on which an eagle perches with wings spread. The other hand grasps a staff with a plaque that reads " liberty ", partly obscured by an encircling laurel wreath . The original at the Exposition had a Phrygian cap on top of the staff. It was only partly gilded (no gold on the exposed skin of the head, neck and arms), but the replica is completely gilded. The original statue, constructed in 1893, stood in front of

80-418: A lifeboat. The Strauses lived in a house at 2747 Broadway, between 105th and 106th Streets, one block south of the location of the memorial. The park exists on a small triangle of land at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue. It was known as Schuyler Square when acquired by the city in 1895 and was renamed Bloomingdale Square in 1907. Between 1995 and 1997, Straus Park was renovated and expanded to

100-612: Is known to have attended classes at the National Academy for Design beginning in 1890, where records exist for his registration for the antique school (for two years), and to have followed this with study at Columbia University. Following that he went to Europe for 6 months and worked under Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere , at the Beaux Arts , in Paris . When Lukeman returned to New York, he became an assistant to Daniel Chester French ,

120-539: Is report, potentially conflicting with other sources regarding his early training, that has him involved in an apprenticeship at the foundry of Jno. Williams, Inc. until he was 19. Likewise regarding a further report: that Lukeman studied terra cotta and architectural modeling for building and exterior decorations for several years, while in the evening studying life drawing (at the Cooper Union in New York). Lukeman

140-828: The Henry Street Settlement , and he was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Dickinson College . Two significant influences were those whose training he extensively received, Launt Thompson and Daniel Chester French . In addition, Lukeman was known to have kept a small nude study executed by Kenyon Cox , one which "Cox considered among his best," and is therefore considered as one of Lukeman's possible artistic influences. The following entries, whose dates of execution are known, are ordered according to date, earliest to latest: Fuller E. Callaway, 1929, textile magnate portrait bust, Hills & Dales Estate, LaGrange, Georgia The following entries, whose dates of execution are unknown, are ordered alphabetically by

160-695: The Court of Honor, inside the Great Basin pool. However, on August 28, 1896 that statue was destroyed by fire on order of the park commissioners. The replacement statue stands in the area between the exposition's Electricity and Administration Buildings (both demolished after the exposition), at the intersection of Richards Drive and Hayes Drive. One of two additional replicas of the statue stands in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The statue

180-520: The Lukeman design in 1970). Located 400 feet (120 m) above ground, and lacking the originally intended legs on the horses, the Lukeman-Hancock-Faulkner sculpture ultimately measured 190 by 90 feet (58 by 27 m), and is recessed 42 feet (13 m). Lukeman died in New York on April 3, 1935, aged 65, leaving his wife, formerly, Helen Bidwell Blodgett. Lukeman's work was recognized by

200-703: The National Academy and the Cooper Union School at age eleven," though a National Academy of Design source notes that the school's "registration records do not bear… out" this historical supposition. It is also reported that he began sculpting at age 10 at a boys' club miniature workshop, working in clay and wood from ages 10 to 13. At a young age he became a studio assistant of Launt Thompson , an Irish-American sculptor and National Academician, and, like Launt, pursued medically related studies (anatomy)—Lukeman at New York's Bellevue Hospital (for two year prior to 1890). He remained with Launt until age 16. There

220-569: The Republic The Statue of The Republic is a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park , Chicago , Illinois by Daniel Chester French . It is based on a colossal original statue, which was a centerpiece of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. That statue was made of temporary materials and was destroyed after the fair. The smaller-scale replica sculpted by

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240-481: The confederacy's president, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (and their respective horses Blackjack, Traveller, and Little Sorrel), in DeKalb County, Georgia , near Atlanta ; there, Lukeman designed and supervised sculpting of the monument after removing the earlier work of Gutzon Borglum (the original commissionee, who had resigned ). David Dearinger notes that "Lukeman

260-535: The facade of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences . A further more complete list of his American and Canadian commissions and other important public sculpture works is given below. A seminal work of Lukeman—proceeding from his earlier work on "several grandiose memorials" —was to complete the execution of the enormously scaled Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial . This mountain carving depicted

280-629: The monuments in which he would come to specialize, as well as "portrait busts and statues, bas-reliefs, ornamental sculpture," which have been described as being "architecturally effective and often remarkable in conception." Notable works in New York state from his early independent work include figures for the Customs Building in Columbus, on the Appellate Court House in Manhattan, and on

300-449: The same artist was erected in 1918 in commemoration of both the 25th anniversary of the Exposition and the Illinois ' statehood centennial. The replacement statue is at the south end of the park at the intersection of East Hayes and South Richards Drive, adjacent to the golf course and approximately where the exposition's Administration Building and Electricity Building once stood. The statue

320-462: The subjects surname or place name: [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Lukeman, Henry Augustus (1870–)". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. , as reflected by the inline references to Colby & Williams , (1915), New International Encyclopedia (2nd ed.), op. cit. Statue of

340-553: The west, by the addition of 15 feet of West End Avenue. An endowment established by the Straus family funded the transformation of a neglected reflecting pool in front of the sculpture into a planting bed. The Friends of Straus Park fund maintenance and the planting of seasonal flowers. 40°48′06.5″N 73°58′05.5″W  /  40.801806°N 73.968194°W  / 40.801806; -73.968194 Augustus Lukeman Henry Augustus Lukeman (January 28, 1872 – April 3, 1935)

360-859: Was an American sculptor, specializing in historical monuments. Noted among his works are the World War I monument in Prospect Park, Brooklyn , the Kit Carson Monument in Trinidad, Colorado and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia. Henry Augustus Lukeman was born on January 28, 1872, in Richmond, Virginia , and was raised in New York City. He is "said to have begun lessons at

380-529: Was criticized for taking over another artist's work," and that "he used Borglum's existing scheme," though altering it to be a bas-relief whose figures would ultimately be over 150 feet tall. When funding ran out in the advent of the Great Depression , Lukeman would continue to pay the craftsmen until his own means were exhausted, after which the carving would remain incomplete for decades (until Walker Hancock and Roy Faulkner completed an edited version of

400-532: Was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund, which commissioned French to cast this recreation of the original 65-foot-tall (20 m) statue that stood on the grounds of the Exposition of 1893. Edith Minturn Stokes served as French's model for the original statue. Henry Bacon , the architect of the Lincoln Memorial , designed the festooned pedestal for the replica. The statue's right hand holds

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