Artist: Hiram Powers (1805 - 1873)
Nationality: American
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
American sculptor, Hiram Powers first appeared on record in Italy in 1837. Although he specialized in portrait busts, it was his statue Greek Slave that made him famous. It was first seen at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and soon became one of the most replicated sculptures of the period.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Hiram Powers California marble 19th century
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"The Greek Slave," by Hiram Powers
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Andrew Jackson, 1834-1835; this version, 1839 Hiram Powers (1805-1873)AmericanMarble; 34 3/4 x 23 1/2 x
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Hiram Powers - Eve Disconsolate 1959-61 marble Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Hiram Powers - Eve Disconsolate 1871 Marble Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Hiram Powers, American, 1805-1873 Faith Italy, about 1872 Marble 68.58 x 52.07 x 33.02 cm
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Hiram Powers - Andrew Jackson 1834-35 marble The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Hiram Powers - The Greek Slave 1846 marble Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Hiram Powers - Portrait of Judge Jacob Burnet 1837-41 marble Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Matthew Barney - Cremaster 3: The Dance of Hiram Abiff 2002 four chromogenic pri The Art Institute of Chicago American
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John Francis Murphy, American, 1853-1921 Sunset about 1900 Oil on canvas 13.02 x 17.78 cm
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Alexander Helwig Wyant, American, 1835-1892 Road in Ireland about 1866 Oil on canvas 30.8 x
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Albert Pinkham Ryder, American, 1847-1917 The Golden Hour 1870s Oil on canvas 19.05 x 31.75
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Anonymous Portrait of two girls sitting on a chair in Union case designed by Hiram W. Hayden after Thomas Lawrence's painting of the Calmady children with leaf and grape design on back case/ tintype circa 1854 - 1857
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Hiram Dwight Torrey - Sunrise Among the Mountains c. 1856 oil on canvas McMullen Museum of Art at Boston University American
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Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, American, about 1834-1869 Old Aqueduct about 1860 Oil on paper 13.97 x
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Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, American, about 1834-1869 Mountain Landscape about 1856 Oil on paper 14.92 x
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Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, American, about 1834-1869 Study of Trees about 1856-59 Oil on canvas mounted
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Andy Warhol Kimiko Powers, 1971-1972 screenprint poster 1981
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George Cruikshank Sir John Falstaff by His Extraordinary Powers of Persuasion..., plate 9 opposite page 104 in the book The Life of Sir John Falstaff by Robert B. Brough (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858) etching 1858
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Asahel Powers - Hannah Fisher Stedman 1833 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Asahel Powers - Possibly Mrs. William Sheldon c. 1831 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Asahel Powers - Possibly William Sheldon c. 1831 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Asahel Powers, American, 1813-1843 Mrs. Patrick Henry (Dorothea Dandridge) 1826 Oil on canvas 85.09 x
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Asahel Lynde Powers - Portrait of a Dark-haired Man Reading the "Genesee Farmer" c. 1839 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Gorilla, Lee Younggren (United States)  (Artist), 20th century, Ebony
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Artist: artist unknown Title: The Goddess Isis Date: 1st century Medium: bronze Dimensions: H.9 in.
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Mother and Child, 15th–20th century; Bamana Bamana peoples; Mali, Bougouni or Dioila areaWood; H. 48
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Harriet Powers, American, 1837-1911 Pictorial quilt United States, Georgia, (Athens), 1895-98 Pieced, appliquéd, and printed
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Notes, R. B. Kitaj (United States, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, 1932-10-29 - 2007-10-21) , no date, Screenprint
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Modern Painters, R. B. Kitaj (United States, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, 1932-10-29 - 2007-10-21) , 1972, Screenprint
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W. H. Auden, R. B. Kitaj (United States, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, 1932-10-29 - 2007-10-21) , 1969, Screenprint and collage
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W. H. Auden, R. B. Kitaj (United States, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, 1932-10-29 - 2007-10-21) , 1969, Screenprint and collage
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Civic Virtue, R. B. Kitaj (United States, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, 1932-10-29 - 2007-10-21) , 1967, Screenprint
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The Miracles of Saint Francis of Paola
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Bust of Louis XV
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Saber, 16th century; Ottoman period TurkishSteel, inlaid with gold; precious stones; fishskin; L. 37 7/8
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Saint Francesca Romana Giving Alms
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Pectoral with the Name of Senwosret II, ca. 1897-1878 B.C.E.; Dynasty 12, reigns of Senwosret
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Self Portrait with Stiff Hat Date: 1921 Medium: etching Dimensions: H.12-9/16
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The Judgment of Midas
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Amphoriskos
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Saint Andrew, possibly ca. 1330 Simone Martini (Italian, Sienese, active by 1315, died 1344)Tempera on
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Christ Appearing to His Mother, part of a triptych Copy after Rogier van der Weyden
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The Combat of Khusraw Parviz and Bahram Chubina - Painting from the Shahnama of Shah Isma’il II, ’Ali Asghar (attributed to)  (Artist), circa 1577, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
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Carletto Caliari Bearded Man Wearing a Ruff Black, red, brown, and white chalk on blue-green laid paper loosely mounted on another sheet circa 1590
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Artist: Songye Title: Male figure Date: 19th century Medium: wood, horn, brass tacks, metalwork, glass
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Power Figure, 19th–20th century; Songye Songye peoples; Democratic Republic of the CongoWood, copper, brass, iron,
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Portrait of Alexander the Great
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Samson Captured by the Philistines Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Ferrarese, 1591-1666)Oil on canvas; 75
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Large Butterburr Leaves and Grass
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Artist: Yoruba Title: Ifa Divination Board Date: 20th century Medium: wood Dimensions: H.9 x W.10-1/2
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Study of a Male Figure
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Head of Saint John the Baptist
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836), 1788 Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825)Oil on
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Made by Meissen Factory, German Umtierkrug (Fabulous beast ewer) Germany, (Meissen), about 1730 Hard-paste porcelain
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Satyr, Statuette, 16th century (ca. 1506-08) Il Riccio (Andrea Briosco) (1470-1532), SculptorItalian (Padua); Made in
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Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706-1775 Made by Meissen Factory, German Figure of an Arara about
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Made by Meissen Factory, German Large octagonal dish (Christie-Miller service) Germany, (Meissen), about 1742 Hard-paste
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Necklace of faience ball beads with glazed crystal pendant Nubian Classic Kerma 1700-1550 B.C. Length

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Childs Gallery: Anne Lyman Powers: By the Shore Reception
Working in numerous media she frequently explores new and interesting depictions of everyday scenes often taken for granted. The familiar angles of bridges and beach shacks are changed into accomplished studies of color and line. Be it a flock of ...
Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art: Andrea Jespersen and Ben Woodeson
Jespersen also tries to find superpowers outside the colourful universe of the comics, whereby her work becomes a sort of meta-reflection on our need to believe in the existence of superpowers and superheroes. In this way her work also deals with ...
Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum: Call to Artists: Taos National Exhibition of American Watercolor VII
Juror is Alex Powers, nationally recognized artist, author and teacher from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The entry fee is $30 for one to three slides. Sponsor: The Taos National Society of Watercolorists. For a prospectus, send a SA...
Detroit Contemporary: psyche: Work by Three Artists
Exhibiting in the first floor gallery, painter and art instructor Jo Powers (Royal Oak) examines the theatre of private disputes gone public. Incorporating close up views of human heads while imposing a sense of immediacy and confrontation, th...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Lloyd Rees Sketchbooks
This is the first exhibition to be devoted to Rees' sketchbooks and his love of Europe. This exhibition, like the previously popular centenary retrospective of his drawings in 1995, offers further evidence of his acute powers of observation, d...
Aboriginals: Art of the First Person: Spirits of Stone
Carvers are able to reveal these spirits and free the powers of wisdom, courage, cunning and tenacity traditionally possessed by the animal that is revealed in the carving. Carvings range from those with intricate detail by Zuni carvers Dan ...
Van Gogh Museum: Light! Art, technology and society in the Industrial Age, 1750-1900
By means of approximately 300 objects, the evolution of light and the resulting impact on social, economic and artistic realms is highlighted. Included are some spectacular loans, such as the Statue of Liberty from the Jardin du Luxembourg in Pari...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Subjects and Symbols in American Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Subjects and Symbols in American Sculpture: ...
Manhattan Arts International: Call for Artists: The Healing Power of Art
"The Healing Power of Art" Call for artists. All styles. All media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, prints and mixed media. Exhibition, website presence and special publication "The Healing Power of Art." At least 75% of the e...
Bronx Supreme Court: Resent Works by Colombian-American Painter MICO: The Anniversary Series: 9-11-01
Why is it that Aerosol Art continues to be put down by the U.S. Media and the Art World by branding it Graffiti- Look up the meaning of the infamous G Word in any dictionary and youll discover that it really means to scrawl. Yet, no writer has ...
Tilton Gallery: Jiang Hu: Contemporary Chinese Art
The show’s title, Jiang Hu, can be literally translated as “rivers and lakes,” but its metaphoric meanings are rich and varied. It can denote a “wild or unsettled region,” or an idyllic fictional realm inhabited by itinerant outsiders, including s...
Grace Cathedral: GraceOnline
Listen to audio interviews of the featured artists talking about how religion and spirituality influence their creative powers. This feature promises to be inspirational to both the artist and non-artist alike. You can log on to this piece di...
ABoriginArt Galleries: Guardian Series: Susan Drozda
She grinds her own pigments from ochre found along the creek beds, combines these powders with tree resins and glues. There are no pre-conceptions when she begins to create. Susan surrounds herself with stone, bones, wood, shells, artifacts, bear ...
ROCHDALE ART GALLERY: SHAMIANA: THE MUGHAL TENT
Shamiana is an arts education initiative by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It symbolises the United Kingdom's links with South Asia, both past and present, and the continuing vitality of the South Asian cultural tradition. The qa...
International Design Conference in Aspen: The Spirit of Design: Fifieth Annual Conference
At a time when our sense of reality and purpose is constantly being challenged by ever-changing scientific theories and technological innovations, the Internat...
Arts Catalyst, the Science-Art Agency: Call for Artists: 2 Artists-in-Residences Art/Biotechnology
Experienced and motivated artists, interested in engaging the public with issues connected with art and biotechnology, are sought. These residencies are intended to support the CleanRooms exhibition, which presents art works that challenge resp...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 010101 : Art in Technological Times
In the 010101 SFMOMA galleries, visitors will find a range of such video works, sculptures, design projects, computer-driven installations, traditional drawings and paintings, and new art works commissioned for th...
Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum: Drawn from My Soul: The Art of J. Michael Walker
The idea is to modernize the highly respected images and themes of the Virgin Mary, says Walker. This series of works grew out of my immersion into Mexican rural, lower-class cult...
Tate Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial: International 2002
Artists for Liverpool Biennial / International 2002 are Chiho Aoshima, Olaf Breuning, Elizabeth Dadi & Iftikhar Dadi, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Juan Fernando Herrán, Christine Hill, T...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland: Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson: Energy Forms
For her large scale weavings, Jónsson's process begins with the unique translation of a photograph into a loose abstract sketch known as a cartoon. She places this image beneath sets of separately strung warp and weft threads and subsequently pain...
Frye Art Museum: Scott B. Goodwillie: Figuring the Forces
Painting in a realist style, Goodwillie combines smooth, studied Dutch brushstrokes with more edgy, contemporary subjects to create works that are both classically masterful and modern in mood. His Figuring the Forces exhibition features canvases ...
British Museum: Japanese Prints during the Allied Occupation, 1945 - 1952
Symbolic of this process was the meeting of the American graphic artist Ernst Hacker ( 1917 - 87 ), posted to Tokyo in Spring 1946, with Onchi and this circle and Munakata Shiko ( 1903 - 75 ), who was then almost unknown. On joining Onchi's influe...
Camden Arts Centre: Aernout Mik: Shifting Shifting
A new commission, Training Ground (2006) is a simulation of a police training arena that slips between uncertain acting and brutal reality. The fact that the police are wearing civilian clothing is disturbing in its ambiguity – are they, as a grou...
Helsinski City Art Museum: William Blake
Born in London in 1757, William Blake's thinking was much influenced by the French Revolution, which was generally regarded as a sign of the dawning of a new age in Europe. Blake saw himself primarily as a prophet, for whom art was a way o...
Tower Records: Ben Woodeson: Window Pain Project II, Picadilly Radio

Art Gallery of South Australia: The Encounter, 1802: Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages
For both the French and British in 1802 the South Pacific was as remote and foreign as it was possible to be. And the two empires, at the height of their maritime, military, economic, artistic and scientific powers, were chief rivals. When the tw...
The Jewish Museum: Facing West: Jews of Central Asia and Caucasus
The three communities lived under different powers and their experiences varied accordingly. Under Muslim rule, Bukharan and Mountain Jews were subject to forced conversions and numero...
Ottawa Art Gallery: Here and Gone: Eric Walker
Here and Gone highlights several features of Walker's paintings, including his critical engagement with the material culture and iconography of industrial modernism; a conceptual allegiance to, and dialogue with, artistic modernism; and an aesthet...
RAM galleri: Jan Steffensen: Aquaduct
At Ram Gallery the aqueduct will run from wall to wall, and therefore indicate a continuation beyond the gallery space. A segment of reality cuts through the room, thereby leading our attention towards the world outside the sphere of art. The he...
Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Edvard Munch. 1912 in Germany
Born in Norway in 1863, Munch moved in 1909 to a secluded spot in Kragorø on the southern coast of Norway, where he found his quietest studio so far since his temporary studio in Hvitsten on the Oslo Fjord. His apprenticeship and journeyman years ...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Photographs by Dmitri Baltermants - The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, A View of World War II from a Soviet Perspective
As a child Baltermants witnessed the tumultuous changes brought about by the 1917 Revolution and grew up in the chaotic political environment dictated by Lenin’s ideologies. After graduating from Moscow State University he anticipated a quite lif...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Millinnium Glass: An International Survey of Studio Glass
The art world of Kentucky is fortunate to count among its artists, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Professor of Art at Centre College in Danville. Since the early 1980's, he has been ...
Chambers Fine Art: Shi Jinsong: Na Zha Baby Boutique
Through his razor-sharp sculptures and related works, Shi Jinsong initiates a dialogue, at once menacing and ironic, between the forms of mythic Chinese culture and modern day globalization. “Na Zha” is here recast as the brand name for an outrage...
Hyde Park Art Center: Cut, Pulled, Colored and Burnt
Raising issues of representation, cultural identity and assertion through photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage, the exhibition offers a diverse group of provocative, serious works, tempered by often humorous social critique. D...
National Gallery of Canada: Balti Light
The contribution of artists such as Casper David Friedrich, C.W. Eckersberg, Carl Blechen, Friedrich Wasmann and Johan Christian Dahl, was to be found in their new and original ...
Adam Gallery: New Paintings: Barbara Rae Ra
Following is the essay from the catalogue: " Taste; we are not born with it. It has to be acquired in the same way we learn grammar to improve creative writing. If we feel uncertain about judging a work of art, or the utilitarian design of a c...
Joan Miro Foundation: The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society that can never exist. The show is divid...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early 20th-Century American Art
On the Edge of Your Seat examines the intersection of cultural forces that shaped American popular entertainment in the early years of the 20th century.  It analyzes how and why people attended vaudeville and early film in droves, contributing to ...
National Museum of Women in the Arts: The Intensely Colored, Symbolically Imaginative Work of Self-Taught Artist Nellie Mae Rowe
Rowe (1900-1982) lived all her life in rural Georgia, the last 50 years in Vinings, northwest of Atlanta. She created art from earliest childhood, drawing on scraps of paper and cardboard, and twisting the family's laundry into doll shapes. She firs...
Power Plant: Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works
Since 1987, Kelley and McCarthy have collaborated on three major installations and five videos as well as producing two series of photographs, design of the Sod and Sodie Sock catalogue and a double CD of performances in Tokyo with Japanes...

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