George S Patton Boston Monument, Veteran Remembered.

George S. Patton
Esplanade

James Earl Fraser (1885-1945), Sculptor Bronze

Majestically standing, George Smith Patton, Jr., a resident of Hamilton, Massachusetts and a distinguished and courageous soldier, is one of the many pillars of the WWII American Military on the Boston Esplanade.

On the Esplanade near the statues of Senator Walsh and the transplanted Civil War general, Charles Devens, stands the bronze statue of a more recent and infinitely more vivid figure, the dashing and profane General George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945), the most dramatic officer on his rank in World War II. It is the work of James Earle Fraser (1876-1953), a pupil
of Augustus Saint-Gaudens,
whose buffalo nickel is familiar to every American.

Fraser, who also modeled
the ‘End of the Trail’ for the
Panama-Pacific Exposition,
as well as sculptures for the
Supreme Court and the National Archives buildings in
Washington, did the statue
of General Patton for the
U.S. Military Academy at
West Point. The Boston statue is a replica, commissioned
by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and erected in the mid-fifties, a decade after the general’s death.