The Shaw Memorial is an original cast of the moument to the Civil War service of the Massachusettes 54th regimen of African American volunteers.
The Shaw Memorial is an original cast of the moument to the Civil War service of the Massachusettes 54th regimen of African American volunteers.
On May 28, 1863, the largest crowd in Boston's history assembled to send off the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment to fight in the Civil War. After A brief study of the soldiers, Saint-Gaudens prepared initial drawings and plaster studies for the commission. The artist was especially attentive to the depiction of the African-American soldiers. The Memorial took 14 years to complete and then was duplicated in 1901.The original version differs slightly from the one in Boston which was cast in 1901 and exhibited that year at the Buffalo, NY.
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