Adams Memorial
"Clover Adams, wife of writer Henry Adams, commited suicide in 1885 by
drinking chemicals used to develop photographs. Adams commissioned
sculpture Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a memorial that would
express the Buddhist ideas of nirvana, a state of being beyond joy and sorrow."
This sculpture is the result. It's a reproduction in the Smithsonian
American Art Museum. The original is by Clover's gravesite in D.C.
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Photo by moi.
7 comments:
Not that memorials are really happy things, but this one is so sad but beautiful nevertheless.
Oh my. I like Sandy's comment.
Yep. Sandy said it for me.
Beautiful memorial but WHAT a way to commit suicide. Oh my.
Sandy - I know. It was really powerful in person. Heartbreaking.
Andi - Isn't that awful! What a horrible thing to do.
Saint Gaudens' genius was in being able to capture this sorrow.
CommonWeeder - I felt the same way. It's hard to convey emotion, but I feel like he nailed it.
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