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- Samuel Adams outside Faneuil Hall
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- Two years later, she rented a studio in Boston near William Rimmer, an artist and physician, with whom she studied. He critiqued her works as she began making full-length sculptures.
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- At the time that Whitney began to study art, women had limited educational opportunities.
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- Whitney moved to New York so that she could study anatomy at a Brooklyn hospital from 1859 and into 1860.
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- Thadeus Kosciuszko in Boston Public Garden
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- He immigrated to the colonies in 1775, joined the Continental Army shortly thereafter, and rose to the rank of colonel and then head engineer.
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- In this final position, he oversaw the fortification of such strategic areas as the city of Philadelphia, the Delaware River,and West Point, the site of the future military academy.
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- Boston-area Polish organizations commissioned this bronze statue by local sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson to memorialize the 150th anniversary of Kosciuszko’s enlistment in the Continental Army.
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- Born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1746, Tadeusz Kocuiszko became an American military hero during the Revolutionary War.
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- Tadeusz Kosciuszko by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson
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I never thought of that but it does not surprise me. I’m guessing at that time it was considered “improper” for women to be looking at a nude male model?
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