Object details
Object number
ARC.009229
Creator(s)
Title
Cenotaph, World War I Memorial, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Date
5 July 1921
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in ink in A. Piatt Andrew's hand (lower center): the cenotaph of Gloucester's Monument to the Heroic Dead in the day following its dedication / to Y [Isabella Stewart Gardner] from A [A. Piatt Andrew] / July 4th 1921
Inscribed in ink (on mount): the cenotaph of Gloucester's Monument to the Heroic Dead in the day following its dedication / July 4th 1921
Provenance
Gift from Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury A. Piatt Andrew (1873-1936) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 5 July 1921.
Commentary
Gloucester resident, Frederick G. Hall, designed the cenotaph, or base meant to look like a tomb, for his town's World War I memorial. The granite was sourced from local quarries and another local sculptor, Anna Hyatt, designed an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc to complete the monument.
Isabella Stewart Gardner's good friend, future Gloucester congressman, and founder of the American Field Service, A. Piatt Andrew organized the memorial. He sent her this photograph taken the day after it was dedicated on the Fourth of July 1921. Isabella visited the monument the following year and preserved several mementos related to it in the museum's galleries.
Bibliography
Elizabeth Reluga, "Anna Hyatt Huntington: World War I Memorial to the Sons of Gloucester," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 28 May 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/anna-hyatt-huntington-world-war-i-memorial-sons-gloucester
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