Joel Tanner Hart
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Joel Tanner Hart (February 10, 1810 - March 2, 1877) was an American sculptor.
Life and work
Joel Tanner HartFlorence, Italy where he lived for the remainder of his life.
Joel Tanner Hart is best known for busts of
Cassius M. Clay and created the statues called Il Penseroso (1853) and Woman Triumphant that stood at the Fayette County
courthouse until it was destroyed by fire in 1897.
He also sculpted the
Southwood Smith in the English Cemetery in Florence. Hart died in Florence in 1877 and was buried in the same English Cemetery. By Legislative Act, his remains were later exhumed and returned to his native state of Kentucky for reinterment in the Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky on June 18, 1887.[2]
Archival collections
- Title: Joel T. Hart Letters, 1829-1864. Collection Number: 02797-z. The Wilson Special Collections Library. Polk Place. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill Campus.
- Title: Joel T. Hart Papers, 1836, 1876. Kentucky Historical Society. University of Kentucky.
- Title: Joel Tanner Hart Poems. Catalog Number SC 1488. Kentucky Historical Society.
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References
- ^ "Joel T Hart". Kentucky Historical Society. University of Kentucky. (Accessed 12 Sep 2017)
- ^ "Biographical Sketch of Josiah Hart". By S.D. Mitchell. Volume 42, Number 138, January 1944. Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society © 1944 Kentucky Historical Society. Page 19 & Page 20. (Accessed 12 Sep 2017)
- Berry, Carrie Williams. Joel Tanner Hart. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
External links
- Works by or about Joel Tanner Hart at Internet Archive
- Guide to the Reuben T. Durrett Collection of Joel Tanner Hart Papers 1823-1876 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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