Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us: Boston monuments, Paul Revere North End, his ride ...

Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us: Boston monuments, Paul Revere North End, his ride ...: Paul Revere (1735-1818), a Boston craftsman, is best visualized as represented in John Singleton Copley’s oil portrait of 1768-1770 at the ...

Talk schedule for "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

Joe Gallo will be speaking about "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"at the following locations this winter/ spring 2013 time frame:

January 10 , 2013 at 2:00 PM at The Boston Cable Channel 9 Commonwealth Ave Boston, Ma


February 4, 6:00 PM at the Pearl Room BSA in 290 Congress Street , Boston ; Boston Society of Architects, for the "Boston By Foot" docents.

"The talk directed for the dedicated docents of 'Boston By Foot' organization, I believe was successful. The new and different manner that we shall all view the numerous and artistic quality bronze and stone sculptures in our city of Boston's parks, streets, and public buildings has been enhanced by this discussion."


February 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM Boston Public Library 630 Adams Street, Dorcester, Ma


March 5, 2013 at 6:30 PM  Faneuil Branch BPL, 419 Faneuil Street , Brighton Ma

March 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM North Reading Library, 147 Park Street , North Reading , MA

March 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler Street, Tewksbury, MA

April 29, 2013 at 6:30 PM 690 Adams Street, Dorcester, Ma

April 23, 2013 at 6:30 PM South End Branch , 685 Tremont Street, Boston, Ma

May 14 2013 at 7:00 PM Helena Flint Library 147 Park ave , North Reading, MA

May 28 2013 at 7:00 PM Tewsksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler Street , Tewsbury MA

June 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM Boston Public Library main branch "The Never To Late Club" 700 Boylston Street, Boston Ma

Boston Monuments, Charles Stuart artist painter

Gilbert Charles Stuart 

sculptor H. Carins 

Granite  1897

The prolific portrait painter Gilbert Charles Stuart (1777-1828) is best known for the so-called “unfinished portrait” of George Washington, the face of which is reproduced on the dollar bill. Stuart mainly painted portraits of his wealthy clients, including the first six presidents of the United States, but due to his mismanagement of his business, Stuart died in poverty and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Old South Burying Ground on Boston Common. The grave cannot now be located, but this granite tablet Boston monument commemorates Stuart’s life and work. The tablet depicts a painter’s palette in bas-relief with a quill pen thrust through the thumbhole.

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"next edition shall feature this Boston Monument to one of Boston's most celebrated artists.

Boston Bronze and Stone goes to Boston Channel 9

Hi!
As Arts/Cultural editor for Neighborhood Network News (www.nnnonline.org), I'd like to invite you to come to our Kenmore Square Studios  on Thursday January 10 at 2 pm to pretape a 6-minute interview about your book and upcoming promotional appearance in Boston.  The segment will  aired later in the month on Boston Cable Channel 9 at  at 5:30, 9:30 and 11:00 pm.

Chris Hardy
Arts/Cultural Editor

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us " has just been invited for another interview about my book.

I am looking forward to this new adventure. It never ceases to amaze me how excited and curious Bostonians are about my new book.

This bronze sculpture ascends upward to celebrate the construction of the then-tallest building in Boston. In 1967, the Prudential Building pioneered the future of the Boston architectural landscape. Quest Eternal proudly heralds the future for the forward-looking metropolitan business community. Lead by this tall skyscraper, our current financial district became a reality.

Found on Boylston Street in Boston, at the foot

of the Prudential building this large single cast sculpture called ‘Quest Eternal’ bears the following inscription: “Cast in Italy, this five-ton bronze figure is a traditional classic form depicting man reaching for the heavens.”

Taken from the Stone

Boston Bronze and Stone second book signing at Medford Squares Bestsellers Book store!

Our second booking signing at Bestsellers Bookstore went well. Surrendered by hot latte, great books other authors and guitar soloists and plenty of customers made for a successful book signing!

Boston Bronze and Stone goes back to school!

Boston Bronze and Stone went back to school recently to stimulate and educate 100 Lexington students  about creativity in art and past historical creativity of men and women who were successful  in their respective fields of study or vocation.

Military, political, medical, educational, technological, musical, academic and religious heroes and heroines from the City of Boston's past 400 year history were represented and discussed.

Joe Gallo talks about "Boston Bronze and Stone Speaks To Us"

Joe Gallo will be speaking about his book Sunday 12/9/12 11:45 AM immediately after Old North Church's services and a book signing next door in the Old North Church Gift Shop.

George Washington, 1815 
Christ Church (Old North Church), Salem St. / North End Christian Gullager (d. 1827), Sculptor
Marble
The first Made-in-America sculpture is housed in the Old North Church. Boston not Philadelphia, nor New York, nor Washington D.C. can say it has the first American-made Carrara bust of George Washington, Father of our Country.
Had the American Revolution not intervened, more London-made memorials might have come to Boston to join the Scheemakers, Cheere, and Tyler works in King’s Chapel. As it was, the next significant memorial was a home-grown product, the bust of George Washington that was given in 1815 to Christ Church, Sa-em Street, by its senior warden, Shubael Bell. During Washington’s progressthrough New Eng-land in 1789 he sat for two hoursin Portsmouth, New Hampshire,on 3November for ChristianGullager (or Gülager), a Dan-ish artist, who came to Americaabout 1781, and lived in Boston,New York and Philadelphia un-til his death in the latter city in1827.
The not-very-flattering oil portrait that Gullager pro- duced now belongs to the Mas- sachusetts Historical Society. The Reverend William Bentley of Salem noted in his invaluable diary on 5 April 1790 that, ‘Mr. Gullager of Boston has completed a bust of General Washington in Plaster of Paris, as large as life,’ which was the prototype of the bust in Christ Church.

The church has placed nearby an inscription reading:  

“General Lafayette, standing here in 1824 and looking at the bust of Washington, said, ‘Yes, that is the man I knew and more like him than any other portrait.’’’ One hates to think that the anecdote is true, or that Lafayette was right. Shubael Bell’s gift by no means satisfied the Boston desire to memorialize Wash- ington, for a decade later a local committee sought to erect a full-length statue. For this purpose they had, as will shortly be seen, to turn to the British sculptor, Sir Francis Chantrey, whose work is the first to be illustrated in this series of Boston statues. (Whitehill,14,15).