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^PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO RICHARD M. HUNT. PHOTOGRAPHED FROM PLASTER MODEL. 
DANIEL C. FRENCH, SCULPTOR; BRUCE PRICE, ARCHITECT. 
“THE HUNT MEMORIAL.” 
At the close of the nineteenth century a new day 
in art is dawning. 
America will at last honor an artist memory. 
Sculptured gods and goddesses, saints and glori- 
fied virgins, warriors, philosophers, poets and states- 
men are partly to lose their glory. 
Mr. Bruce Price, the architect, and Mr. Daniel 
C. French, the sculptor, have laid down their tra- 
ditional tools to give shape to a memorial to be 
erected by the various Art societies in memory of 
their fellow-worker, Richard Morris Hunt. 
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The memorial is to be built of white marble, 
graceful and elegant piers and colored marble col- 
umns, a bronze bust of Hunt, and figures represent- 
ing respectively Architecture, Sculpture and Paint- 
ing. 
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The plan is ellipse in form; the fundamental 
principle is the Greek Ionic exhedra, approached 
by three steps leading upon a stylobate of richly 
colored mosaic. 
The central portion or main body is a curtain 
wall, excepting that a niche between two pilasters 
forms a background for the bronze bust that is placed 
on a simple pedestal, on the face of which is in- 
scribed: 
*This illustration by courtesy of Architecture and Building. 
Richard Morris Hunt 
Oct. 30, 1828. 
July 3 1, 1895. 
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The base course, occupying a space between the 
central portion and end terminations, forms a seat 
and substructure, from which rises the ante-piers 
and colored marble columns that support the archi- 
trave cornice that is carried through to the termi- 
nations or end piers and crowned with Acroteria. 
On panels between the ante-piers and architrave 
cornice are inscribed the following societies: Na- 
tional Academy of Design, Century Association, 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Municipal Art Soci- 
ety, Architectural League, National Sculpture So- 
ciety, Society of American Artists, American In- 
stitute of Architects, American Water Color Soci- 
ety, and Society of Beaux Arts Architects. 
Rising from the stylobate, in front of these sub- 
ordinate or end piers, are simple pedestals support- 
ing in strong repose the marble figures representing 
the fine arts, while flanked on either side of these 
end piers or extremities are larger pedestals rising 
from the lower steps and flanking into the park 
wall. The total length over all is 30 feet; depth, 
12 feet; height, 14 feet. 
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The memorial will cut into the wall of Central 
Park somewhere between the Lenox Library and the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 
