Tag: Bronze

  • Porter Angel, Allegheny Cemetery

    The original pictures in this article disappeared with the server that hosted them. This picture was taken in October of 2022. More pictures are at our more recent article on the Porter monument.

    This striking angel is the work of Brenda Putnam, but the cemetery’s site is vague and confusing on dates. It says that the bronze angel was cast “after 1910” as a replica of an original granite sculpture. The earliest dated Putnam work listed in her sparse Wikipedia article is from 1917. Brenda Putnam would have been twenty years old in 1910; she would thus have been a teenager when the granite version was done, if the date “1910” means anything at all. Henry Kirke Porter, identified as “the best-known Porter here” by the cemetery site, died in 1921, and perhaps that gives us a better guess at the date of the sculpture.

  • Moorhead Column, Allegheny Cemetery

    Erected in 1877, this column is unusual in carrying two distinguished works of sculpture in different media. The bronze relief is by Carl Conrads (who actually signed it); the cemetery site does not attribute the stone statue, and old Pa Pitt’s eye for sculptural style is not good enough to say whether it is or is not Conrads’ work.

  • Totten Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

    The sculptor of this exceptionally fine bronze is apparently unknown.

  • James B. Oliver Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

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    An unusual bronze monument with a wealth of detail. Father Pitt has uploaded this picture at 2-megapixel resolution; click on the picture to enlarge it.