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Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress -- The Jefferson
Building, Part 1 - The Staircases - The two great staircases
flanking the Great Hall are embellished by elaborate and varied sculptural work
by Philip Martiny. At the base of each is a bronze female
figure wearing classic drapery and holding a torch of knowledge. They are signed
"P H Martiny, sculptor NY"; the foundry's name is also inscribed at the base.
Each stair railing is decorated with a fanciful series of cherubs carved by
Martiny in white marble. In a niche on the north side is a plaster bust of
Thomas Jefferson and on the south is a bronze bust of George Washington; both
are copied from works by the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The balustrade on
each side of the top landing contains Martiny's figures of cherubs modeled to
represent the fine arts. At the north landing, they are Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture; at the south landing, Comedy, Poetry, and Tragedy.
- From the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Research Information System, Sculpture
Inventory file
Artist Title Owner Call Number Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Abingdon Square War Memorial, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 76003462 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Abram Stevens Hewitt, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870042 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Architecture, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York NY000060 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:(Art Institute Facade Reliefs), (sculpture). Owner:Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 87820017 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Authority, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 76002935 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Cadwallader David Colden, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870045 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Caleb Heathcote, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870040 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Charles James Osborn (1840-1885), (sculpture). Owner:Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 76007143 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Chelsea Park World War Memorial, (sculpture). Owner:Chelsea Park, New York, New York 76002800 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Chemistry, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870046 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:A Child, (sculpture). Owner:Unlocated. 76007141 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Commerce, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870049 Artist:Bush-Brown, Henry K., 1857-1935, Title:Commerce, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870074 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Confucius, (sculpture). Owner:Appellate Court House, New York, New York 76002918 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:David Pietersen De Vries, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870039 Artist:Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910, Title:The Dewey Triumphal Arch, (sculpture). Owner:Destroyed. 77003073 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:DeWitt Clinton, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870041 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Electricity, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870054 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Force, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, Department of General Services, New York 87870056 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:General Robert E. Lee, (sculpture). Owner:Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi 60380002 Artist:Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, Title:George Washington Inaugural Centenniel Medal, (sculpture). Owner:Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 12000072 Artist:O'Connor, Andrew, b. 1846. Title:Gould Memorial Library Doors, (sculpture). Owner:State University of New York, Albany, New York NY000090 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Industrial Art, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870051 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Industry, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870048 Artist:Bush-Brown, Henry K., 1857-1935, Title:Industry, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870073 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Iron Age, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870058 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:James Duane, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York NY000057 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Justice, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870080 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Justice, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870053 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Life, (sculpture). Owner:Herald Square Hotel, New York, New York 73261354 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:The Light of Knowledge, (sculpture). Owner:Old District of Columbia Memorial Library Building, Washington, District of Columbia 76007142 Artist:Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, Title:Medal Commemorating the Centenary of Washington's Inauguration as First President, (sculpture). Owner:Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York 76007885 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Medicine, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, One Centre Street, New York, New York 87870047 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Music, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870052 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Nature, (sculpture). Owner:St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri 76001006 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Navigation, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870050 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:New York in Its Infancy, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870075 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:New York in Revolutionary Times, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870076 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Painting, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870059 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Peter Stuyvesant, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870044 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Philip Hone, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870043 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Printing, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870055 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Robert E. Lee, (sculpture). Owner:Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California 04550009 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Sculpture, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870060 Artist:Duncan, John Hemingway, 1855-1929, Title:Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch: (Arch), (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 76003581 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Soldier's and Sailor's Monument, (sculpture). Owner:City Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey NJ000474 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:St. Bartholomew's Church Doors, South Portal, (sculpture). Owner:St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, New York 88300035 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Tradition, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York 87870057 Artist:Martiny, Philip, 1858-1927, Title:Washington Arch: Keystone Eagles, (sculpture). Owner:City of New York, New York, New York NY000198 Artist:Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, Title:Washington Centennial Medal, (sculpture). Owner:Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 76007910 Artist:Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, Title:Washington Inaugural Centennial Medal, (sculpture). Owner:Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 75008584
- Sketchbooks Description of Adolph Weinman's Papers: Correspondence, 1893-1931, with Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Philip Martiny, and
others; photographs of Weinman, his family, and his work; notes and sketches for
sculptures; clippings; and miscellany.
- Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site - Cornish Colony Sculptors shows Philip Martiny, Sculptor (Assistant) (1858-1927)
- Notable
Exhibits from the World's Columbian Exposition - Also prominent were Philip Martiny's Signs of the Zodiac series and his Abundance and Ceres. The pediment was crafted by Larkin J.
Mead.
- Guide to Public
Sculpture
- New York in Its Infancy and New York in Revolutionary Times,
Sculptor: Philip Martiny, 1907.
- "... this pair of sculptural groups flanking the main entrance on Chambers
Street best illustrates his poetic use of light, shadow, and line. New York
in Revolutionary Times, at left, and New York in Its Infancy, at the
right, are pyramidal groups, animated by deep undercuts, graceful and abundant
folds of drapery, and an irregular play of shadows. In both compositions the
standing figure personifying New York dominates two smaller ones on either side.
The New York of early times wears a crown, connoting colonial rule. On her right
stands an Indian, on her left a Dutch settler. The New York of revolutionary
times wears a phrygian cap, connoting the struggle for liberty. On her right is
a man in colonial military uniform balanced by a female settler on her left,
holding a scythe and flowers.
- Roof Figures, Sculptors: Philip Martiny and Henry K. Bush-Brown,
1903-1908
- "The figures on the courthouse are either historical or allegorical and were
intended to edify the public. Among the allegorical subjects represented are the
four seasons, intellectual and artistic pursuits, and industry and commerce, a
reflection of turn-of-the-century American preoccupation with material and
artistic progress.
- Martiny did the parade of full figures standing along the cornice line above
the fifth floor. On the Chambers Street facade, a mixed bag of New York
officials, mostly mayors, spans some 300 years. From left to right across the
building the figures represent the following: David Pietersen De Vries (17th century), patroon of the colony of Staten Island about 1640; Caleb
Heathcote (1665-1721), mayor of New York, 1711-1714; De Witt Clinton (1769-1828), governor of New York, 1817-1823, 1828; mayor of New York,
1803-1807, 1809-1810, 1811-1815; Abraham Stevens Hewitt (1822-1903), mayor of
New York, 1887-1888; Philip Hone (1781-1851), mayor of New York,
1825-1826; Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), director-general of New
Netherlands, 1647-1664; Cadwallader David Colden (1769-1834), mayor of
New York, 1818-1821; James Duane (1733-1797), mayor of New York,
1784-1789.
- On the Centre Street facade's cornice the eight female figures by Martiny
represent Chemistry, Medicine, Industry, Commerce, Navigation, Industrial
Art, Music, and Architecture. On the Reade Street cornice are
Martiny's eight male and female figures representing Justice, Electricity,
Printing, Force, Tradition, Iron Age, Painting, and Sculpture.
- New York in Its Infancy and New York in Revolutionary Times,
Sculptor: Philip Martiny, 1907.
- The Filson Club - Guide # 781-850 850. Yandell, Enid Bland, 1869-1934. Collection, 1880s-1920s. 987PC52X. 284 items. Louisville native Enid Yandell was one of the first woman sculptors to gain recognition in the United States. Some of her earliest work included decorative sculptures for the Women's Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she worked with Lorado Taft and Philip Martiny. Her commissions included large-scale statues and fountains for public spaces; busts, statues, fountains, and sundials for private gardens; and small figurines, lamps, and decorative pieces. The collection includes photographs and snapshots of Yandell, family members and friends, many of her works, and a few of her artist/sculptor contemporaries. Major works pictured include Daniel Boone, the Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain, Athena, and Hogan's Fountain. There is an item index for the collection.
