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Moffitt & Doyle
| Name | Moffitt & Doyle |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Great Jones Street 6 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Bildhauer |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Associated Sculptors". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 371] |
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[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | This firm occupies a high position as builders of artistic' monuments and memorials, owing to the fact of their being the first professional sculptors in this country to devote artistic efforts to this branch of art, which has been heretofore, in America, monopolized by business houses not employing adequate artistic talent. These gentlemen are well known as the sculptors of many of America's public monuments, such as the National Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, Mass., the statues of John Howard Payne and Bishop Pinkney in Washington: of Generals Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, and o£ Margaret Haughery in New Orleans; of Senator Benjamin H. Hill in Atlanta, Ga., and of the elaborate National Revolutionary Monument at Yorktown, Va., erected by Act of Congress, 1884. Their cemetery work covers all branches of the. art, statues, busts, medallions, etc., in any material, and they devote the closest attention to designing the plainest headstone or the most costly monument or mausoleum. We may mention among their cemetery monuments, the Steinway, Durant, and Loftis Wood mausolei, the Brown Brothers, Gordon W. Burnham, Pierreponts, Perry, Aspinwall, Stedman, Wolcott, Tiffany, Delavan, August Belmont, and John C. Anderson monuments, besides many tablets, founts, statues, altars, etc., distributed among our metropolitan churches. Further and better, by systematizing' the mechanical execution of their work, they are enabled to offer artistic productions at no greater cost than that at which more ordinary work has been heretofore produced. Their office and modelling studio is at No. 6 Great Jones Street, but three doors from Broadway, where they are always willing to prepare designs and estimates for intending purchasers, whose attention it may be well to call to the following editorial from The Century magazine for August, 1884. AMERICAN MONUMENTAL ART. The New York papers have lately been discussing the American custom of giving out monuments, not to professional sculptors and architects, but to business houses. There can be no doubt that this system is a dangerous one. The public, and especially committees, ought to bear in mind that the very best artistic talent can seldom be obtained through "middlemen," and that business houses not composed of trained artists are as little likely to produce masterpieces of monumental art as "literary bureaus" would be likely to furnish on demand, and at most-for-your-money prices, first-class novels or inspired poems. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 371] |
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