Sculpture

The American sculpture collection is comparatively modest, with the primary strength being portrait busts and full-length sculptures of Daniel Webster, Dartmouth Class of 1801. Other works represented include artists who were associated with the art colony of nearby Cornish, New Hampshire, such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, as well as examples of American folk sculpture.

Some highlights with entries from the Hood collection catalogue American Art at Dartmouth:

Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Appeal to the Great Spirit, 1912

John Bernard Flannagan, Head, 1927

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, Medusa, 1854

Frederick William MacMonnies, Diana, 1890

Paul Manship, Lyric Muse, 1912

Frederic Remington, Bronco Buster, 1895

Frederic Remington, The Rattlesnake (Snake in the Path), 1905

John Rogers, Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations, 1866

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1899

Unknown, Baseball Player (Shop Sign), 1880

Unknown, General George B. McClellan on a Horse, 1865