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Glass Worker's Monument, (sculpture)

Catalog Data

Fabricator:
Riley Brothers Monument Works  Search this
Medium:
Sculpture: Quincy granite; Base: stone
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Arch
Sculptures-Gravestone
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by St. Mary's Church State Street Corning New York 14830
Located St. Mary's Cemetery Park Avenue Corning New York
Date:
Commissioned July 15, 1891. Dedicated Sept. 16, 1893
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
Image on file.
RILEY BROTHERS, BROOKLYN, NY (Around emblem at top front of arch:) N.H. OF A.F.G.W.U./OF NORTH AMERICA. (On front of arch:) (Left side:) THIS MONUMENT/HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE/AMERICAN FLINT GLASS/WORKERS UNION/TO THE MEMORY OF EIGHTEEN OF ITS/MEMBERS WHO WERE KILLED IN A/RAILROAD DISASTER WHICH OCCURRED AT/RAVENNA, OHIO, JULY 3RD 1891,/WHILE THEY WERE ENROUTE FROM/FINDLAY, OHIO, TO THEIR HOMES IN/CORNING, NEW YORK, WHITHER THEY/WERE JOURNEYING TO MEET LOVING/FRIENDS FROM WHOM THEY HAD BEEN/SEPARATED BY AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE/THEIR INDUSTRIAL CONDITION/ERECTED 1892. (On right side: names and ages of 18 men killed in accident) unsigned Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A male glassblower stands dressed in work clothes holding a gaffer's blowing iron with both hands in front of him, proper right hand slightly above proper left hand. He wears a buttoned shirt with rolled up sleeves. He has thick hair and a bushy mustache. The sculpture is mounted above the keystone of a thick arch made of polished dark Quincy granite. On the front of the keystone is the American Flint Glass Workers Union of North America emblem. Each pillar of the arch is mounted on a stone block base.
Topic:
Figure male--Full length  Search this
Occupation--Craft--Glassworker  Search this
Object--Tool--Blowing Iron  Search this
Emblem  Search this
Control number:
IAS NY001152
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_340940