Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument

by Harry Rand

Book Overview

Art, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture.

The nation's first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough's huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Meant to be the symbolic focus of the whole continent--at the very center of the US Capitol--the monument instead seems a sadly curious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944466290
• ISBN13: 9781944466299
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.2"