Object Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.1.04 |
Collection |
American Art |
Object Name |
Sculpture |
Title |
The Dead Gun Horse |
Artist |
Agnes Yarnall |
Date |
1961 |
Year Range from |
1961 |
Signed Name |
Yarnall |
Signature Location |
on plinth at left |
Description |
A horse with yoke around neck and its legs folded beneath it, rests on an oval base. |
Medium |
bronze |
Dimensions |
H-5.125 W-11 L-5.5 inches |
Notes |
Agnes Yarnall (b. 1904) sculpted a group of 42, Civil War related sculptures, including a bronze head of Abraham Lincoln (2004.60.1). The book, "An Attempted Evocation of the Civil War," was written by Agnes Yarnall in 1980 with photographs of her sculptures and accompanying poems. In the curatorial file is a transcribed oral history of the artist from 1988. Poem accompanying photograph of sculpture in Agnes Yarnall's "An Attempted Evocation of the Civil War," (1980), p. 9: "Dead in thy harness Lie thou there, No more of living Art aware— The crash of battle, Cry of pain, Can never startle thee Again! Brought down to stillness In thy strength, Beauty is in Thy sculptured length— Quick through the mind The visions run Of horses of The Parthenon! Yet even they Cannot surpass Thy curving head Upon the grass!" |
Provenance |
Acquired by the Union League in 1987 |
Related Publications |
"An Attempted Evocation of the Civil War" by Agnes Yarnall, 1980, p.8 |
Legal Status |
Owned by the Union League of Philadelphia |
Search Terms |
"An Attempted Evocation of the Civil War" by Agnes Yarnall |