Cyrus E. Dallin, Sculptor
Bronze / Granite
Mother of 15 children, herbalist , midwife, theologian and brilliant religious speaker and thinker was shutdown by Governor John Winthrop as well as 13 secular and religious leaders including Rev. John Cotton of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In front of the West and East wings of the State House are twentieth century memorials to seventeenth century strong-minded ladies, who grievously disturbed the peace of Boston in their time. Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), who arrived in Boston in 1634, so vigorously expounded a ‘covenant of grace’ that she was within three years tried for ‘traducing the ministers and their ministry’ and banished from the church and colony. In 1638 she emigrated to Rhode Island, and in 1642 to Pelham Bay in the Bronx, where she was killed by Indians.
Cyrus E. Dallin (1861-1944) represented her standing, with her small daughter by her side, her left arm clasping a Bible to her breast, and her face uplifted. His bronze statue, given to the Commonwealth in 1922 by the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Association and the State Federation of Women’s Clubs, was placed outside the West Wing that was added to the State House in 1914-17. (Whitehill, 97)
Bronze / Granite
Mother of 15 children, herbalist , midwife, theologian and brilliant religious speaker and thinker was shutdown by Governor John Winthrop as well as 13 secular and religious leaders including Rev. John Cotton of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In front of the West and East wings of the State House are twentieth century memorials to seventeenth century strong-minded ladies, who grievously disturbed the peace of Boston in their time. Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), who arrived in Boston in 1634, so vigorously expounded a ‘covenant of grace’ that she was within three years tried for ‘traducing the ministers and their ministry’ and banished from the church and colony. In 1638 she emigrated to Rhode Island, and in 1642 to Pelham Bay in the Bronx, where she was killed by Indians.
Cyrus E. Dallin (1861-1944) represented her standing, with her small daughter by her side, her left arm clasping a Bible to her breast, and her face uplifted. His bronze statue, given to the Commonwealth in 1922 by the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Association and the State Federation of Women’s Clubs, was placed outside the West Wing that was added to the State House in 1914-17. (Whitehill, 97)
No comments:
Post a Comment