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[[File:Urn of Life World's Work 1909 p.11261.jpg|thumb|150px|''Urn of Life'']]
'''''Urn of Life''''' (modeled 1898-1900, carved 1905-1906) is a marble sculpture by [[George Grey Barnard]] in the collection of the [[Carnegie Museum of Art]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], United States.<ref name="Carnegie"/> Carved by Barnard from white [[Carrara marble]], it is in height.<ref name="Carnegie"/>
==History==
Barnard was moved by the unexpected 1898 death of [[Anton Seidl]], the 47-year-old Hungarian-born conductor of the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York City. He modeled a series of clay sketches on the themes of life, death and religion, and incorporated them into what became the ''Urn of Life''. Barnard hoped that the urn would mark Seidl's grave and hold his ashes, but the musician's family declined the work because of its size.<ref name="SIRIS">[https://ift.tt/2L2W7bT The Urn of Life], from SIRIS.</ref>
Seventeen figures encircle the urn, depicting life events and fantansies.<ref>Library of Congress, ''Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 4, Works of Art'', (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1908), pp. 495-496.</ref> The contentment of the young father, mother and infant of ''Family Group'' (also called ''The Birth'') is contrasted with the woman caring for a wounded man.<ref name="Dickson"/> ''Musician Dying'' (also called ''The Visitation'') depicts a kneeling son weeping by his recumbent father.<ref name="Dickson">Harold E. Dickson, ''George Grey Barnard: 1863 - Centenary Exhibition - 1963'', (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1964).</ref> ''Solitude'' depicts the estrangement of [[Adam and Eve]] after the [[Fall of man|Fall]]—"They are man and woman, together yet alone, divided by that same barrier that even the closest of earthly love is powerless to break down entirely.<ref>Katharine Metcalf Roof, "George Grey Barnard: The Spirit of the New World in Sculpture," ''The Craftsman'' (magazine), vol. 15, no. 8 (December 1908), Gustav Stickley, editor & publisher, p. 278.</ref> ''The Mystery of Life'' may be the strangest of the figure groups, depicting an unearthly hooded figure (literally) holding his head in his hands, while flanked by a submissive man and a distracted woman.
Barnard carved the urn in marble, 1905–1906.<ref name="SIRIS"/> He developed four of its figure groups—''The Mystery of Life'',<ref>[https://ift.tt/2rCgYfa The Mystery of Life,] from SIRIS.</ref> ''The Birth'',<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OR0Gr4 The Birth,] from Library of Congress.</ref> ''Solitude'',<ref>[https://ift.tt/2XVjut7 Solitude,] from SIRIS.</ref> ''Musician Dying''<ref>[https://ift.tt/2XUvRWo Musician Dying,] from SIRIS.</ref>—into independent works.<ref name="Dickson"/> These four sculptures and ''The Prodigal Son'' (from his [[Pennsylvania State Capitol sculpture groups]]) were exhibited by Barnard at the 1913 [[Armory Show]] in New York City.<ref>Milton Brown, [https://ift.tt/2Oqe3iN "Armory Show 1913 Complete List,"] from New York Historical Society.</ref>
Barnard returned to work on the ''Urn of Life'' in 1918,<ref>Donna J. Hassler, [https://ift.tt/33wstC9 "George Grey Barnard (1863 – 1938),"] ''American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I'', Thayer Tolles, ed., (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), p. 421.</ref> following America's entry into [[World War I]].<ref name="Dickson"/> He sold the marble urn to the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1919.<ref name="Carnegie">[https://ift.tt/2OPMkXO Urn of Life,] from Carnegie Museum of Art.</ref>
<gallery>
File:Barnard The Mystery of Life c.1895-97 Smithsonian American Art Museum.jpg|''The Mystery of Life'' (1895-1897), [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]
File:George Grey Barnard, The Birth, marble, exhibited at the Armory Show, 1913.jpg|''Family Group'' (''The Birth''), unlocated
File:WLA taft Solitude Adam and Eve.jpg|''Solitude'' (''Adam and Eve'') (1905-1906), [[Taft Museum of Art]]
File:Urn of Life World's Work 1909 p.11260.jpg|''Musican Dying'' (foreground)
</gallery>
==References==
[[Category:1906 sculptures]]
[[Category:Marble sculptures in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Nude sculptures in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Pittsburgh stubs]]
'''''Urn of Life''''' (modeled 1898-1900, carved 1905-1906) is a marble sculpture by [[George Grey Barnard]] in the collection of the [[Carnegie Museum of Art]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], United States.<ref name="Carnegie"/> Carved by Barnard from white [[Carrara marble]], it is in height.<ref name="Carnegie"/>
==History==
Barnard was moved by the unexpected 1898 death of [[Anton Seidl]], the 47-year-old Hungarian-born conductor of the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York City. He modeled a series of clay sketches on the themes of life, death and religion, and incorporated them into what became the ''Urn of Life''. Barnard hoped that the urn would mark Seidl's grave and hold his ashes, but the musician's family declined the work because of its size.<ref name="SIRIS">[https://ift.tt/2L2W7bT The Urn of Life], from SIRIS.</ref>
Seventeen figures encircle the urn, depicting life events and fantansies.<ref>Library of Congress, ''Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 4, Works of Art'', (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1908), pp. 495-496.</ref> The contentment of the young father, mother and infant of ''Family Group'' (also called ''The Birth'') is contrasted with the woman caring for a wounded man.<ref name="Dickson"/> ''Musician Dying'' (also called ''The Visitation'') depicts a kneeling son weeping by his recumbent father.<ref name="Dickson">Harold E. Dickson, ''George Grey Barnard: 1863 - Centenary Exhibition - 1963'', (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1964).</ref> ''Solitude'' depicts the estrangement of [[Adam and Eve]] after the [[Fall of man|Fall]]—"They are man and woman, together yet alone, divided by that same barrier that even the closest of earthly love is powerless to break down entirely.<ref>Katharine Metcalf Roof, "George Grey Barnard: The Spirit of the New World in Sculpture," ''The Craftsman'' (magazine), vol. 15, no. 8 (December 1908), Gustav Stickley, editor & publisher, p. 278.</ref> ''The Mystery of Life'' may be the strangest of the figure groups, depicting an unearthly hooded figure (literally) holding his head in his hands, while flanked by a submissive man and a distracted woman.
Barnard carved the urn in marble, 1905–1906.<ref name="SIRIS"/> He developed four of its figure groups—''The Mystery of Life'',<ref>[https://ift.tt/2rCgYfa The Mystery of Life,] from SIRIS.</ref> ''The Birth'',<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OR0Gr4 The Birth,] from Library of Congress.</ref> ''Solitude'',<ref>[https://ift.tt/2XVjut7 Solitude,] from SIRIS.</ref> ''Musician Dying''<ref>[https://ift.tt/2XUvRWo Musician Dying,] from SIRIS.</ref>—into independent works.<ref name="Dickson"/> These four sculptures and ''The Prodigal Son'' (from his [[Pennsylvania State Capitol sculpture groups]]) were exhibited by Barnard at the 1913 [[Armory Show]] in New York City.<ref>Milton Brown, [https://ift.tt/2Oqe3iN "Armory Show 1913 Complete List,"] from New York Historical Society.</ref>
Barnard returned to work on the ''Urn of Life'' in 1918,<ref>Donna J. Hassler, [https://ift.tt/33wstC9 "George Grey Barnard (1863 – 1938),"] ''American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I'', Thayer Tolles, ed., (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), p. 421.</ref> following America's entry into [[World War I]].<ref name="Dickson"/> He sold the marble urn to the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1919.<ref name="Carnegie">[https://ift.tt/2OPMkXO Urn of Life,] from Carnegie Museum of Art.</ref>
<gallery>
File:Barnard The Mystery of Life c.1895-97 Smithsonian American Art Museum.jpg|''The Mystery of Life'' (1895-1897), [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]
File:George Grey Barnard, The Birth, marble, exhibited at the Armory Show, 1913.jpg|''Family Group'' (''The Birth''), unlocated
File:WLA taft Solitude Adam and Eve.jpg|''Solitude'' (''Adam and Eve'') (1905-1906), [[Taft Museum of Art]]
File:Urn of Life World's Work 1909 p.11260.jpg|''Musican Dying'' (foreground)
</gallery>
==References==
[[Category:1906 sculptures]]
[[Category:Marble sculptures in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Nude sculptures in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Pittsburgh stubs]]
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