Richard Benson
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial

Robert Gould Shaw Memorial

© Richard Benson

Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
ArtistAmerican, 1943–2017
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
Date1973, printed later
Place depictedBoston, Massachusetts, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 15 1/8 × 12 in. (38.4 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 × 12 15/16 in. (48.3 × 32.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter and Susan MacGill in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2016.174.8
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThe Shaw Memorial, a life-size relief sculpture on the edge of Boston Common that is the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s masterpiece, commemorates the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, an African American regiment that fought heroically in the Civil War. Richard Benson photographed the monument during a period of neglect, when the streaked patina of the bronze seemed to make the sculptor’s work all the more poignant.
ProvenancePeter and Susan MacGill; given to MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, recto, right corner of sheet: Richard Benson
Inscribed in pencil, verso top right corner: BEN.P.124.I
Signed in pencil, recto, right corner of sheet: Richard Benson

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Richard Benson
1973, printed later
Inkjet print
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Study Print- Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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1973, printed later
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Study Print- Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
Richard Benson
1973, printed later
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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1973, printed later
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1973, printed later
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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1973, printed later
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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1973, printed later
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
Richard Benson
1973, printed later
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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1973, printed later
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1973, printed later
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1973, printed later
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