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Statue in the United States Capitol
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
is a 1929
marble sculpture
of
Robert M. La Follette
by
Jo Davidson
, installed in the
United States Capitol
, in
Washington, D.C.
, as part of the
National Statuary Hall Collection
. It is one of two statues donated by the state of
Wisconsin
.
[1]
The statue was accepted in the collection by Senator
John J. Blaine
on April 25, 1929.
[2]
In 1923, the sculptor Jo Davidson had met La Follette in Paris where the Senator had sat for a
bust
. In his autobiography Davidson records, “The bust that I had done at that time now stood me in good stead. it helped me bring back his warm and dynamic personality…….. La Follette had not particularly like the bust…and had remarked that it was too belligerent. Accordingly, I held back.” The work took Davidson four years to complete
[3]
and is one of only a handful of statues in the collection that portrays the subject sitting down. Before it was placed in the Capitol the work was exhibited in a gallery in New York for two months.
Davidson's bust of La Follette now resides in the
National Portrait Gallery
in Washington, D.C.
[5]
See also
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References
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Architect of the Capitol Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol, United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1965 p. 211
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Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation’s Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955 pp. 84?85
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Davidson, Jo (1951).
Between Sittings: An Informal Autobiography of Jo Davidson
. New York: The Dial Press. pp. 204?206.
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Davidson, Jo (2 March 1977).
"Robert Marion La Follette"
– via siris-artinventories.si.edu Library Catalog.
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