Inside Beacon Hill State House
Bela Pratt / Sculptor
Bronze / Granite
With its tender caress, the sculptured War Nurses rightfully represent all nurses, in all wars, a moving masterpiece.
Built largely of Pavonazzo marble this room houses Nurses’ Hall because of the statue of an Army war nurse located here. Sculpted in 1914 by Bela Pratt, it was the first statue erected in honor of the women of the North after the Civil War.
Pratt traveled to Paris, where he trained with sculptors Henri- Michel-Antoine Chapu(1833-1891) and Alexandre Falguière .
In 1892, he returned to the United States to create two large sculptural groups representing The Genius of Navigation for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He also produced sculptures for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. In 1893, he began a 25-year career as an influential teacher of modeling in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
During this time, Pratt sculpted a series of busts of Boston’s intellectual community, including Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks (1899, Brooks House, Harvard University), Colonel Henry Lee (1902, Memorial Hall, Harvard University), and Boston Symphony Orchestra founder Henry Lee Higginson (1909, Symphony Hall, Boston).
He became an associate of the National Academy in 1900.
When Saint-Gaudens’ uncompleted group for the entrance to the Boston Public Library was rejected, Pratt was awarded a commission for personifications of Art and Science. Pratt continued Saint-Gaudens’ influence in coin design after 1907. His gold Indian Head half ($5) and quarter ($2.50) eagles are known as the “Pratt coins” and feature an unusual intaglio Indian head, the U.S. mint’s only recessed design in circula- tion. A retrospective exhibition of 125 of his sculptures was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the spring of 1918.
"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at the following locations: Faneuil Hall Book Store, Old North Church Gift Store, Bestsellers Bookstore Cafe, USS Constitution Museum Gift Sore, Museum Of Science Gift Store, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Book Stores.
With its tender caress, the sculptured War Nurses rightfully represent all nurses, in all wars, a moving masterpiece.
Built largely of Pavonazzo marble this room houses Nurses’ Hall because of the statue of an Army war nurse located here. Sculpted in 1914 by Bela Pratt, it was the first statue erected in honor of the women of the North after the Civil War.
Pratt traveled to Paris, where he trained with sculptors Henri- Michel-Antoine Chapu(1833-1891) and Alexandre Falguière .
In 1892, he returned to the United States to create two large sculptural groups representing The Genius of Navigation for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He also produced sculptures for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. In 1893, he began a 25-year career as an influential teacher of modeling in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
During this time, Pratt sculpted a series of busts of Boston’s intellectual community, including Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks (1899, Brooks House, Harvard University), Colonel Henry Lee (1902, Memorial Hall, Harvard University), and Boston Symphony Orchestra founder Henry Lee Higginson (1909, Symphony Hall, Boston).
He became an associate of the National Academy in 1900.
When Saint-Gaudens’ uncompleted group for the entrance to the Boston Public Library was rejected, Pratt was awarded a commission for personifications of Art and Science. Pratt continued Saint-Gaudens’ influence in coin design after 1907. His gold Indian Head half ($5) and quarter ($2.50) eagles are known as the “Pratt coins” and feature an unusual intaglio Indian head, the U.S. mint’s only recessed design in circula- tion. A retrospective exhibition of 125 of his sculptures was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the spring of 1918.
"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at the following locations: Faneuil Hall Book Store, Old North Church Gift Store, Bestsellers Bookstore Cafe, USS Constitution Museum Gift Sore, Museum Of Science Gift Store, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Book Stores.
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