Item #51-1655 Death and Honor, bronze sculpture, at the American Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1876. Pierce Francis Connelly.

Death and Honor, bronze sculpture, at the American Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1876.

Buffalo, New York: Cosack & Company,1877. Chromolithograph by Clay, Cosack & Co., Buffalo, NY. Sheet size 19 x 13.5 inches.
Letterpress descriptive pages in English and French.
Pierce Francis Connelly was born in the frontier town of Grand Coteau in Louisiana, but moved to Europe as a child and attended school in England and Italy. Connelly studied art in Paris and Florence and was a pupil of the great American sculptor Hiram Powers. Connelly rose to prominence in the United States after he contributed eleven works to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. Connelly's sculpture Thetis and Achilles is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Treasures of Art, Industry and Manufacture Represented in the American Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1876. Edited by C. B. Norton. Buffalo, New York: Cosack & Company,1877. Item #51-1655

Price: $150.00

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