J. Massey Rhind

John Massey Rhind (9 July 1860 â€" 1936) was a Scottish-American sculptor. Among Rhind's better known works is the marble statue of Dr. Crawford W. Long located in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington D.C. (1926).

Early years

Born in Edinburgh, Rhind began his art studies under the tutorage of his father John Rhind, a respected and successful sculptor in the royal burgh. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, and continued his education with Jules Dalou, who was at that time living and teaching in Lambeth, England. He then moved to Paris to continue his education for two more years. Upon completing his training he considered moving to the United States but was cautioned by his father not to do so because, “There is no sculptural art in America . . .You’ll starve.”

In 1885 he established a studio with his elder brother William Birnie Rhind, at 217 West George Street, Glasgow, but his brother moved back to Edinburgh 2 years later. At age 29, J. Massey Rhind finally emigrated to the United States in 1889 and settled in New York City.

Career

In February 1890 John Jacob Astor III died and shortly thereafter a competition to create three sets of bronze doors dedicated to him for Trinity Church, New York was announced. Rhind entered the competition, and, along with Charles Niehaus and Karl Bitter, was awarded one of the sets of doors. After this success he never lacked for work and was to generate a large number of public monuments and architectural projects. Nevertheless, Rhind still found time for smaller, private pieces such as a bust of Theodore Roosevelt.

Gettysburg Battlefield

• Alexander S. Webb, 1915
• Abner Doubleday, 1917
• John Cleveland Robinson, 1917
• Francis C. Barlow, 1922

Public monuments

Washington, D.C.

Nova Scotia

New York and New Jersey

Other

• GIRARD, Stephen: Statue at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• WANAMAKER, John: Statue at the City Hall (east plaza) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Monument on Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• John C. Calhoun Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, 1896
• George Clinton Monument, Kingston, New York, 1898 (originally in New York City )
• Henry Hudson Monument, Kingston, New York, 1898 (originally New York City )
• James Wolfe Monument, Calgary, Alberta, 1898 (originally New York City )
• Peter Stuyvesant Monument

  Kingston, New York, 1898 (originally New York City )

  Bergen Square, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1913

• Robert Burns Monument, Barre, Vermont, 1899,

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,1914,

  Syracuse, New York, 1914,

  Newark, New Jersey, 1914,

• William T. Sherman Monument, Muskegon, Michigan, 1900
• Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Muskegon, Michigan, 1900
• Statues of Samuel Colt, Colt Park, Hartford, Connecticut. 1902-06
• Alexander Skene, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 1905
• Grand Army of the Republic Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1909
• George Washington, Newark, New Jersey, 1914
• Bartolomeo Colleoni, reproduction of Andrea del Verrochio’s equestrian sculpture, Newark, New Jersey, 1914
• National McKinley Birthplace Memorial, Niles, Ohio, 1917
• Nova Scotia Highland soldier, Cenotaph, Chester, Nova Scotia, 1922
• Philip Schuyler, Albany, New York, 1925
• Britannia, Cenotaph, Grand Parade (Halifax), Nova Scotia, 1929
• Nova Scotia Highland soldier, Cenotaph, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1929
• Edward Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, 1931

Fountains

• "Rufus H. King Memorial Fountain", Washington Park, Albany, New York, 1893: the theme, specified by King's son, J. Howard King: Moses strikes the rock at Horeb
• The Corning Fountain, Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, 1899 bronze and granite, the fountain is 30 feet tall, with a statue of a deer in the middle surrounded by figures of Saukiog Indians, Hartford’s first inhabitants.
• "Fountain of Apollo", Lakewood, New Jersey, 1902
• The Erskine Memorial Fountain, Atlanta, Georgia, 1896

Architectural sculpture

New Haven County Court House

• New Haven County Court House, New Haven, Connecticut, 1914 (Architects: William Allen and Richard Williams), facing the New Haven Green.

Detroit

Other

• Alexander Memorial Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1892
• The Cable Building, 611 Broadway at Houston Street, New York City, 1894
• American Surety Building (now Bank of Tokyo), 100 Broadway, figures at 3rd floor level, New York, 1895 (Architect: Bruce Price)
• Astor Memorial Doors, Trinity Church, New York, 1896
• East Pyne, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1896
• "Victory" and "Peace", Grant’s Tomb, New York City, 1897
• Macy’s caryatids, Macy’s Department Store Building, New York City, 1901
• "Victory" and "Progress", quadrigas (but with three horses instead of four), Wayne County Building, Detroit, Michigan, 1904
• United States Courthouse and Post Office, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1904
• Shelby County Court House, Memphis, Tennessee, 1906â€"1909
• Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island, 1908

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Cantor, Laurel M., Spires of Princeton University: An architectural tour of the campus,Office of Communications/Publications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton University
• Caffin, Charles H., American Masters of Sculpture, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York 1913
• Craven, Wayne, The Sculpture at Gettysburg, Eastern Acorn Press, Eastern National Park and Monument association, 1982
• Hawthorne, Frederick W., Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments, The Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, 1988
• Kvaran and Lockley, Guide to the Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
• Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977
• McSpadden, J. Walker, Famous Sculptors of America, Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. New York 1924
• Murdock, Myrtle Cheney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington D.C., 1955
• Nawrocki, Dennis Alan and Thomas J. Holleman, Art in Detroit Public Places, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, 1980
• Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
• Thurkow, Fearn, Newark's Sculpture: A Survey of Public Monuments and Memorial Statuary, The Newark Museum Quarterly, Newark Museum Association, Winter 1975
• Whittmore, Frances Davis, George Washington in Sculpture, Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1933

External links

• gettysburg sculptures Massey Rhind
• Media related to John Massey Rhind at Wikimedia Commons

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