塞缪尔·格雷·沃德 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	塞缪尔·格雷·沃德
品名（英）	Samuel Gray Ward
入馆年号	1912年，12.29
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Augustus Saint-Gaudens【1848 至 1907】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1881 - 公元 1908
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尺寸	19 x 13 3/4 英寸, 26磅 (48.3 x 34.9 厘米) Framed: 37 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 1 5/8英寸 (94.9 x 64.5 x 4.1厘米)
介绍（中）	尽管圣高登斯为塞缪尔·格雷·沃德（Samuel Gray Ward）画像的原因尚不清楚，但这一浅浮雕是雕塑家最早的肖像委托之一。沃德（1817–1907）是大都会博物馆的创始人和首任司库。在他漫长的一生中，他在做金融家的同时培养了无数的艺术和文学兴趣。他是拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生及其圈子的密友，也是艺术特别是版画的热心赞助人。在圣高登斯完成的80多幅浮雕中，他认为沃德的肖像是他最出色的作品之一。雕刻家的粘土接近绘画的直接性，这一点在沃德夹克上斑驳的纹理以及胡子和胡子的刚毛上尤为明显。它只有八分之一英寸深，是圣高登斯试图达到的最低深度。不仅青铜的物理深度很小，圣高登斯还进一步减少了构图本身的任何深度错觉，因此几乎没有前、中和背景的感觉。沃德的半身像呈现在侧面，面朝右，双手抱在膝盖上，他坐在椅子上。背景上刻满了微小的水平线图案，与人物的流体处理相互作用，尤其是手。
介绍（英）	Although the circumstances leading to Saint-Gaudens' modeling of Samuel Gray Ward's likeness are not known, this bas-relief was one of the sculptor's earliest portrait commissions. Ward (1817–1907) was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum and its first treasurer. Over his long lifetime, he cultivated myriad artistic and literary interests while working as a financier. He was an intimate of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his circle, and an enthusiastic patron of the arts, particularly prints. Of the more than eighty reliefs Saint-Gaudens completed, he considered Ward's portrait one of his finest efforts. The sense that the sculptor's clay approaches the immediacy of paint is particularly evident in the richly mottled texture of Ward's jacket and in the wiry bristles of his beard and mustache. Only one-eighth inch deep, it was in the lowest relief Saint-Gaudens had attempted. Not only is the physical depth of the bronze slight, but Saint-Gaudens further minimized any illusion of depth in the composition itself, so that there is little sense of fore-, middle, and background. Ward's half-length figure is rendered in profile, facing right, with hands clasped in his lap, and he is depicted seated in a chair. The background is etched with an allover pattern of tiny horizontal lines that interact with the fluid treatment of the figure, particularly the hands.