Randolph Rogers

• An interesting work by Rogers in Elmwood Cemetery, the Veiled Lady.
  
  
• Randolph Rogers, American, 1825-1892John Adams (1735-1826), 1859, Marble, A.B. 1755; A.M.; LL.D. 1781; President of the United States, 1796-1800, Harvard University Portrait Collection, Presented to Harvard University by the Corporation of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 1935
  
  
• Brief Bio http://www.interests.com/philately/biororo.htm
  
  
  • ROGERS, Randolph (1825-1892) American sculptor. Born July 6, 1825 in Waterloo, New York, he was a neo-classicist sculptor that did the Christopher Columbus doors for the US Capitol, Washington, DC. He died January 15, 1892 in Rome, Italy. - United States USA1892A02.6 (doors).
    
    
• Lincoln Statue 1871 - http://www.libertynet.org/artguide/big.html
  
  
• Brookgreen Gardens, http://www.thewebstation.com/brookgreen/mentions - Randolph Rogers Nydia, The Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii (1855)
  
  
• Soldiers Memorial - http://www.ci.worcester.ma.us/parks/common_memorial.htm
  
  
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13641b.htm
  
  
• http://www.autographs.demon.co.uk/Arts/body_arts.html
  
  
  • ROGERS, Randolph.Manuscript Document signed by the head of the Academy of Arts in Florence, permitting Randolph Rogers to make sketches and models in the sculpure galleries. With another related document.1 page 9 x 7 inches.Florence, 26 February 1849.Randoph Rogers (1825-92), American sculptor, known principally for his Columbus Doors of the U.S.Capitol at Washington, D.C. and for the heroic figure of Michigan on the top of the Detroit monument.£60
    
    
• Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument In 1865, the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association was established by Governor Austin Blair in order to collect funds for a monument commemorating Michigan's sailors and soldiers killed during the Civil War. Voluntary subscriptions from citizens were collected and sculptor Randolph Rogers, who had created similar Civil War commemorative monuments in Ohio and Rhode Island, was chosen as the artist for the monument. Rogers' design consists of a series of octagonal sections or that rise up from the base of the monument. . The lowest sections are topped by eagles with raised wings that guide the eye upward to the next section which is surmounted by four male figures depicting the Navy, Infantry, Calvary, and Artillery branches of the U.S. Army. Four female figures, resting on pedestals, are above the male statues and represent Victory, History, Emancipation, and Union. Local lore claims Rogers used Sojourner Truth, the famous African-American abolitionist, as his inspiration for the Emancipation statue, but little evidence exists to document this belief. Capping the monument, the heroic Indian warrior figure "Michigan" brandishes a sword in her right hand and in her other she raises a shield, prepared for attack.
  
  
  • http://www.detnews.com/1998/blackhistory/980203/truth/truth.htm - Sojourner Truth, the renowned abolitionist and women's rights leader, is immortalized in one of Detroit's most cherished landmarks - the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, erected on Campus Martius downtown in 1872 to commemorate Civil War dead. It's not certain that sculptor Randolph Rogers really modeled the bronze allegorical figure of an African-American woman after Truth. But that's the story that has become part of Detroit lore.
    
    
    
  • http://suvcw.org/mi/mcwm3.html - Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Campus Martius, Woodward and Michigan avenues, Detroit. It is the work of the sculptor, Randolph Rogers. The monument is about fifty-six feet in height and consists of a granite body, on which are mounted statues and medallions of bronze. At the top is a ten-foot statue which represents Michigan. Beneath it, on projecting abutments, are four allegorical figures representing Victory, Union, Emancipation, and History. Farther down are four figures representing the infantry, cavalry, artillery, and the navy. On the same level as these statues are medallion portraits of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Farragut. On the outer pedestals of the monument are four eagles.
    
    
• The Columbus Doors at the Capitol - http://128.143.77.22/%7ECAP/COLUMBUS/col1.html
  and http://128.143.77.22/%7ECAP/COLUMBUS/col2.html
  
  
• The Columbus Doors, also called the Rogers Doors or Rotunda Doors, stand imposingly at the main entrance to the Capitol, almost 17 feet high and weighing 20,000 pounds. The bronze doors are curved, with a semicircular tympanum above two valves that are divided into four panels each. The details of each scene are finely modeled, and techniques of Renaissance perspective and different levels of relief give each scene a sense of depth.
  
  
  • The American sculptor Randolph Rogers (1825-1892) was asked by Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, the Supervising Engineer of the Capitol Extensions, to design a set of doors for the entrance to the new House wing from Statuary Hall. As a subject, Rogers suggested the life of Columbus. Rogers' estimate for the project was approved on May 24, 1855, and the artist, who had earlier studied sculpture for 3 years in Italy, went to Rome to work on the models. The commission for the Capitol was only his second large public work.
    
    
  • Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca (1487)
  • Departure from the Convent of La Rábida (1492).
  • Audience at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella (1492).
  • Departure of Columbus from Palos (1492).
  • Landing of Columbus in the New World (1492).
  • Columbus's First Encounter with the Indians (1492).
  • Entry of Columbus into Barcelona (1493).
  • Columbus in Chains (1500).
  • Death of Columbus (1506).
    
    
• There is a book, out of print, Randolph Rogers : American Sculptor in Rome by Millard F., Jr. Rogers
  
  
  • It might be available at http://www.artbooks.demon.co.uk/docs/mon_am.htm
    • ROGERS . Rogers, Jr., Millard F. Randolph Rogers. American Sculptor in Rome. University of Massachusetts Press. 1971. 230x160mm, xviii, 237 pp, 88 ills. Catalogue of 120 works. 6 pp bibliography. Cloth + d/j. Good condition. LB 12334. £ 12
      
      
• He met Nathaniel Hawthorne in Rome in 1858. http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhw.html
  
  
  • Rogers, Randolph (1825-1891) - American sculptor Hawthorne met in Rome, 1858
    
    
  • Hawthorne refers to Rogers in the preface to the Marble Faun - http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/mfpf.htmland mentions the Columbus doors.
    
    
• Life of Thomas Crawford, Sculptor - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/fourmill/statue.html
  
  
  • His (Crawford's) most important commission in this country, aside from those on the Capitol, was that for figures on the Washington Monument at Richmond, which was designed by Robert Mills. For this, Crawford modeled the equestrian figure of Washington, and the two figures of Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. Following his death the other figures were completed by Randolph Rogers. Most widely known of Crawford's works is the gigantic figure of Freedom that surmounts the Capitol Dome.