Built to honor a woman who went by the nickname "Clover" and who was born with the last name Hooper, this work is faced by a bench which is cast in bronze and is seated on a stone in Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Cemetery.
Its creation was inspired by its namesake's trip to Japan with John La Farge, although most art historians believe that its creator was influenced by the works of Claus Sluter and the contemporary exhibition of an Antonin Mercie sculpture. Its central figure's hand is brought up to the face, though the hand barely touches the cheek. The rest of the seated body is obscured by a coarse cloth that forms a shroud over the figure's head. Built to honor a woman who went by the nickname "Clover" and who was born with the last name Hooper, this work is faced by a bench which is cast in bronze and is seated on a stone in Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Cemetery. Finished in 1891, for 10 points, identify this monument created by Augustus St. Gaudens which bears the last name of the man who commissioned it, the author of Mont St. Michel and Chartres.
Its creation was inspired by its namesake's trip to Japan with John La Farge, although most art historians believe that its creator was influenced by the works of Claus Sluter and the contemporary exhibition of an Antonin Mercie sculpture.
Adams Memorial