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Cenotaph, World War I Memorial, Gloucester, Massachusetts
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Cenotaph, World War I Memorial, Gloucester, Massachusetts

designer (American, 1879 - 1946)
contributor (La Porte, Indiana, 1873 - 1936, Gloucester, Massachusetts)
architect (American, active 1911 - 1924)
photographer
Date5 July 1921
Place MadeGloucester, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumGelatin silver print
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.009229
eMuseum ID723866
EmbARK ObjectID34897
TMS Source ID18347
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on view
Web Commentary
Gloucester resident, Frederick G. Hall, designed the cenotaph, or base meant to look like a tomb, for his town's World War I memorial. The granite was sourced from local quarries and another local sculptor, Anna Hyatt, designed an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc to complete the monument.

Isabella Stewart Gardner's good friend, future Gloucester congressman, and founder of the American Field Service, A. Piatt Andrew organized the memorial. He sent her this photograph taken the day after it was dedicated on the Fourth of July 1921.  Isabella visited the monument the following year and preserved several mementos related to it in the museum's galleries.

BibliographyNotesElizabeth Reluga, "Anna Hyatt Huntington: World War I Memorial to the Sons of Gloucester," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 28 May 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/anna-hyatt-huntington-world-war-i-memorial-sons-gloucester
MarksNotesInscribed in ink in A. Piatt Andrew's hand (lower center): the cenotaph of Gloucester's Monument to the Heroic Dead in the day following its dedication / to Y [Isabella Stewart Gardner] from A [A. Piatt Andrew] / July 4th 1921
Inscribed in ink (on mount): the cenotaph of Gloucester's Monument to the Heroic Dead in the day following its dedication / July 4th 1921
ProvenanceNotesGift from Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury A. Piatt Andrew (1873-1936) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 5 July 1921.