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Faith, Hope, Charity. Marble busts by Hiram Powers (1805-1873), 1866-1871.
Charity, modeled 1867, carved ca. 1871, Hope, modeled 1866. The father of the American school of Neoclassical sculptors, Hiram Powers presents the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity. Basing his designs on ancient imperial portrait busts, he swathed the female personifications in simple Greco-Roman drapery. Their uniformly smooth facial features and dignified, calm expressions are typical of Powers’ “ideal heads.”
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 208.
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