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"Rinehart was a noted American expatriate Neoclassical sculputor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style." Rinehart spent his formative years in Baltimore, traveled to Italy in 1855, and opeend a permanent studio in Rome by 1858. While there he execusted two bas-reliefs in marble, Night and Morning, from which the works seen here derive. These allegorical images use female figures to represent the two times of day. Eveing is covering the earth with her star covered veil of nighttime, while Morning is removing it.
Artist
William Henry Rinehart
(1825 - 1874)
Morning
Date1865
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 22 × 19 1/2 × 2 in. (55.9 × 49.5 × 5.1 cm)
Object numberN0478.1944(02)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label Text"Rinehart was a noted American expatriate Neoclassical sculputor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style." Rinehart spent his formative years in Baltimore, traveled to Italy in 1855, and opeend a permanent studio in Rome by 1858. While there he execusted two bas-reliefs in marble, Night and Morning, from which the works seen here derive. These allegorical images use female figures to represent the two times of day. Eveing is covering the earth with her star covered veil of nighttime, while Morning is removing it.
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