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Anna B. Sinton Marble and Plaster Busts

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Title	Anna B. Sinton Marble and Plaster Busts
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Ohio Women Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873 Artists Sculpture
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	This marble portrait bust of Anna B. Sinton (1852 circa-1931) was created by Hiram Powers in 1870. It became an important component of Powers' output, for the American sculptor was said to have exceeded even his Italian contemporaries in naturalistic representation. Meant to recall the carved busts of Roman patrician women, this portrait depicts the 18-year-old daughter of David Sinton (1808-1900) dressed chastely in a loose-fitting, relatively high-necked gown and a draped over-garment. Her hair is pulled away from her face and gathered in the simple back knot that Powers felt to be the most appropriate style for women. The bust measures 23.125" x 19.125" x 10.75" (58.73 x 48.57 x 27.31 cm). The second image is the plaster cast of the portrait bust of Anna Sinton. It can be used to compare Powers' preliminary plaster cast to his finished marble bust. The cast is the same size as the finished sculpture. Anna B. Sinton was born circa 1852 and was a co-founder, along with her husband Charles Phelps Taft (whom she married in 1873), of the Taft Museum of Art. She lived in the Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft Home (now the Taft Museum of Art) until her death in 1931. In 1927 she and her husband bequeathed their home and private collection of 690 works of art to the people of Cincinnati. Born and raised in Woodstock, Vermont, Hiram Powers (1805-1873) moved with his family to Cincinnati at the age of 13. He came to the attention of Cincinnati art patron Nicholas Longworth, who owned and lived in Belmont (now the Taft Museum of Art) during the mid-nineteenth century. His marble sculpture The Greek Slave won grand prize at the Western Art Union art show in Cincinnati in 1850 and is considered one of the best American marble sculptures of the nineteenth century.
Creator	Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
Date of Original	1870
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) Marble: 1931.372, Plaster: 1999.3
Submitting Institution	Taft Museum of Art
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om1711_1913071_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1711_1913071_001.tif
Image Height	3000
Image Width	2346
File Size	1248.582 KB

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