Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, Massachusetts
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 The Robbins Flagstaff
Dedicated | |
| Artist | Cyrus E. Dallin |
| Year | 1913 |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Subject | Includes several sculptural figures including The Minuteman of 1776, a gentleman reading, Squaw Sachem, an Indigenous American woman and a woman teaching a child to read |
| Dimensions | (5 ft in) |
| Location | Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Owner | Town of Arlington, Massachusetts |
The Robbins Memorial Flagstaff (1913) is a structure supporting and topping a flagpole in Arlington, MA. The supporting sculpture includes a variety of sculptural elements including bronze figures, stone eagles, and snapping turtles with a finial representing American Agriculture. The sculpture resides to the west of Town Hall at 730 Massachusetts Avenue.[1]
The sculpture was commissioned by architect Richard Clipston Sturgis who prepared the site plan for the library/town hall area and designed the adjacent Town Hall. Cyrus Dallin created the sculpture with input by Sturgis. On June 25, 1913, this sculpture and the nearby Menotomy Hunter were dedicated and Dallin's speech included a passionate plea for renaming the town of Arlington as Menotomy after the historic significance of its largely vanished inhabitants. [2]
The four figures around the base include a colonial woman teaching a child to read, an Indigenous American woman with a papoose on her back, the Minuteman of 1776[3], and a man reading a bible. At the time of its creation it was described as "Perhaps as great a test of a sculptor's powers as anything that could be conceived."[4]
The sculpture can be found about 300 yards west of the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum.
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American Agriculture Figure atop Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC02772 -
Pilgrim divine - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03087 -
Squaw Sachem - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC02798 -
Pilgrim mother and child - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03081 -
Eagle - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03088 -
Ornament - Robbins Memorial Flagstaff - Arlington, MA - DSC03096
References
edit- ^ Ahrens, Kent (1995). Cyrus E. Dallin His Small Bronzes and Plasters. Rockwell Museum. p. 62.
- ^ Francis, Rell (1976). Let Justice Be Done. Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. pp. 50–51.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "American Soldiers in Three Great National Crises". The Outlook Volume 115. 1917.
- ^ "Cyrus Dallin, Foremost American Sculptor". The Reporter Devoted to the Granite and Marble Monumental Trade: 25. August 1915 – via Google Books.
Category:Sculptures of Native Americans
Category:1913 sculptures
Category:Sculptures of men in Massachusetts
Category:Works by Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Category:Monuments and memorials
Category:Buildings and structures in Arlington, Massachusetts
Category:Bronze sculptures in Massachusetts