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Robert Arneson

The Blessed John N. Neumann, 1976

Description

Maker

  • Robert Arneson, 1930-1992, American

Title

The Blessed John N. Neumann

Year

1976

Medium

glazed ceramic

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • glaze,
  • terracotta

Dimensions

52.1 x 54.6 x 38.1 cm (20 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 15 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on left shoulder:Arneson 1976; on back:Fourth Bishop of Philadelphia1811 John1860NepomuceneNeumanC.SS.R.DD.

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Gift of Richard Brown Baker

Object Number

81.290

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here that we may go to bed at night and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul for a purpose.
–John Nepomucene Neumann (American, 1811–1860), Roman Catholic priest and the first and only American citizen canonized as a saint

Contemporary Crafts

January 19 - March 18, 1990

Recent Gifts and Acquisitions

November 5, 1982 - January 2, 1983

Use

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