1928.115: Loulie's Hand

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1928.115

People

Hiram Powers, American (Woodstock, NY 1805 - 1873 Florence, Italy)

Title

Loulie's Hand

Other Titles

Former Title: Luly's Hand

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1839

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231717

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Technique

Carved

Dimensions

7.3 x 14 cm (2 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on base: H. Powers

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Lawrence Peirson; to his nephew James Hardy Ropes; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1928.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Professor James Hardy Ropes

Accession Year

1928

Object Number

1928.115

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Nathaniel Hawthorne, French and Italian Notebooks (Boston, MA, 1873), p. 308
• H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 364, pl. XII
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 57, ill.
• William H. Gerdts, American Neo-Classic Sculpture: the Marble Resurrection, Viking Press (New York, NY, 1973), p. 141, pl. 175; text p. 140, b/w
• Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873, Vol. II, University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses (Newark DE/London and Toronto, 1991), p. 185, cat. 218, ill.
• John M. Hunisak, Castings, Casts and Replicas: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from Europe and America in New England Collections, exh. cat., Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT, 1994), reproduced in b/w no. 34, p. 109
• Charles Colbert, "Spiritual Currents and Manifest Destiny in the Art of Hiram Powers", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (New York, NY, September 2000), vol. LXXXII, no. 3, pp. 529-543, p. 533, no. 4
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Sarah Anne Carter, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, 2015), p. 29, repr. as fig. 31
• Robert Cozzolino, ed., Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2021), pl. 20
• "Weirdness in Minneapolis", Antiques (March - April 2022), p. 26, p. 26, repr.

Exhibition History

• The History of American Sculpture, The Newark Museum, Newark, 05/01/1962 - 10/31/1962
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• The Extended Hand, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, 01/01/1974 - 01/31/1974
• Carvings, Casts, & Replicas: nineteenth-century sculpture from Europe & America in New England collections, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, 09/22/1994 - 12/11/1994
• Tangible Things, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 01/24/2011 - 05/29/2011
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/11/2015 - 05/10/2015
• Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Toledo Museum of Art, 06/12/2021 - 09/05/2021; Speed Art Museum, 10/07/2021 - 01/02/2022; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 02/19/2022 - 05/15/2022

Subjects and Contexts

• Google Art Project
• Collection Highlights

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