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Museums page for Chauncey Ives ((1810 - 1894)), known for Neo classical portrait bust sculpture. Showing 13 museum collections and exhibitions.
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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
Chauncey Ives - Artist Info
About Chauncey Ives: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (13)
All MuseumsChrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Detroit Historical Museum
5401 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202-4009Maryland Historical Society
201 West Monument Street
Balti.Orgmore, MD 21201-4674Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024St Johnsbury Athenaeum
1171 Main Street
St Johnsbury, VT 05819The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 North Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4007Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271