Tag Archives: Charles Sumner

Men in Cambridge Made by Women: Anne Whitney and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson

April 3, 2019 · by · in Art, art history, Artists, bronze, commuity, Harvard University, history, Massachusetts history, memorial, Monumental sculpture, political issues, public art, Sculpture, visual art, women artists, Women's history · 2 Comments

The statues of Charles Sumner and the Hiker both connect to stories worth telling, well told in the quotes below. The Sumner statue story leads back to a much earlier Boston proposal that was rejected because the artist Anne Whitney was a woman. The Hiker statue story leads on to a much later time when fifty bronze replicas of Kitson’s original around the country became part of a scientific study.

Anne Whitney and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson Dealt with Men on Pedestals

March 7, 2018 · by · in Art, art history, landmarks, Massachusetts history, memorial, Monumental sculpture, public art, Public Art Walk Boston, Sculpture, Statues, visual art, women artists, Women's history · 1 Comment

My first post about women artists represented on Public Art Walk Boston included art by both Anne Whitney and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson on Commonwealth Avenue Mall. That was in March 2017. Now almost a year later, I will wrap up the promised project with their additional art.