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1810 Hamden, Connecticut - 1894 Rome, Italy. Known for: Neo classical portrait bust sculpture.
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A sculptor who played a significant role in making sculpture in America generally popular, Chauncey Ives completed many idealized portrait busts and life-size Neoclassical figures in marble. Most of... Read full biography
A sculptor who played a significant role in making sculpture in America generally popular, Chauncey Ives completed many idealized portrait busts and life-size Neoclassical figures in marble. Most of his subjects were either from Greek mythology or romantic literature. A reoccurring theme was the... Read full biography
A sculptor who played a significant role in making sculpture in America generally popular, Chauncey Ives completed many idealized portrait busts and life-size Neoclassical figures in marble. Most of his subjects were either from Greek mythology or romantic literature. A reoccurring theme was the vulnerability of women, a popular 19th-century idea that he expressed through innocent, modest looking female nudes. Ives, following in the wake of Hiram Powers, was one of the increasing number of... Read full biography
A sculptor who played a significant role in making sculpture in America generally popular, Chauncey Ives completed many idealized portrait busts and life-size Neoclassical figures in marble. Most of his subjects were either from Greek mythology or romantic literature. A reoccurring theme was the vulnerability of women, a popular 19th-century idea that he expressed through innocent, modest looking female nudes. Ives, following in the wake of Hiram Powers, was one of the increasing number of sculptors able to depict nudes as long as they were cloaked in a bit of drapery in classical motifs. Ives was born on a family farm near New Haven, Connecticut, and his early talent for art and distaste for farming led his father to apprentice him to a... Read full biography
A sculptor who played a significant role in making sculpture in America generally popular, Chauncey Ives completed many idealized portrait busts and life-size Neoclassical figures in marble. Most of his subjects were either from Greek mythology or romantic literature. A reoccurring theme was the vulnerability of women, a popular 19th-century idea that he expressed through innocent, modest looking female nudes. Ives, following in the wake of Hiram Powers, was one of the increasing number of sculptors able to depict nudes as long as they were cloaked in a bit of drapery in classical motifs. Ives was born on a family farm near New Haven, Connecticut, and his early talent for art and distaste for farming led his father to apprentice him to a local wood carver. By 1837, he had a studio in Boston and was moderately successful but had ongoing health problems, which led to a docto... Read full biography
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Keywords (26)
Art Method
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Wood Carving and/or Engraving
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Mythology, Legends
- •Portrait Bust Sculpture
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Italy Before World War I
Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association
Art School
- •Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Student
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •US Capitol Building, Washington DC
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Boston Athenaeum
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts