HIRAM POWERS | DIANA

Acquired by the present owner, 2003

William H. Gerdts, American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection, New York, 1973, p. 79, illustration of another example fig. 50, p. 78

Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1984, p. 115, another example mentioned

Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873, vol. I, Newark, Delaware, 1991, pp. 276, 283, 285, 316, 333; vol. II, no. 156, pp. 131-34, 254, illustration of another example

Hiram Powers created the first model of Diana for his patron Lucius Manlius Sargent. The artist based this ideal bust on his earlier sculpture America. Other examples of Diana are located in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.