Statue of Henry Mower Rice

Statue by Frederick Triebel

Henry Mower Rice
The statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection
Artist	Frederick Triebel
Medium	Marble sculpture
Subject	Henry Mower Rice
Location	Washington, D.C., United States

Henry Mower Rice is a marble sculpture of Henry Mower Rice created by Frederick Triebel and placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., one of the two statues there from the State of Minnesota. It was dedicated in 1916.^[1] The work cost $7,500^[2] and was unveiled in Washington on February 8, 1916.^[3]

References

^ Architect of the Capitol Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol, United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1965 p. 212
^ Cooley, Adelaide N. ‘’The Monument Maker: A Biography of Frederick Ernest Triebel, The rediscovery of a forgotten American sculptor’’ Exposition Press, Hicksville NY, 1978 pp. 19–20
^ Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation’s Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955 pp. 28–29

External links

Media related to Henry Mower Rice by Frederick Triebel at Wikimedia Commons

National Statuary Hall Collection

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