J. Massey Rhind-Cedar Herald Index

John Massey Rhind (9 July 1860 – 1 January 1936) was a Scottish-American sculptor. Among Rhind's better known works is the marble statue of Dr. Crawford W. Long located in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington D.C. (1926).

Early years

Born in Edinburgh, Rhind began his art studies under the tutorage of his father John Rhind, a respected and successful sculptor in the royal burgh. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, and continued his education with Jules Dalou, who was at that time living and teaching in Lambeth, England. He then moved to Paris to continue his education for two more years. Upon completing his training he considered moving to the United States but was cautioned by his father not to do so because, "There is no sculptural art in America... You'll starve."

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In 1885 he established a studio with his elder brother William Birnie Rhind, at 217 West George Street, Glasgow, but his brother moved back to Edinburgh 2 years later. At age 29, J. Massey Rhind finally emigrated to the United States in 1889 and settled in New York City. In 1899, Rhind set up a studio and sculpture yard and began residing in Closter, New Jersey.

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Career

In February 1890 John Jacob Astor III died and shortly thereafter a competition to create three sets of bronze doors dedicated to him for Trinity Church, New York was announced. Rhind entered the competition, and, along with Charles Niehaus and Karl Bitter, was awarded one of the sets of doors. After this success he never lacked for work and was to generate a large number of public monuments and architectural projects. Nevertheless, Rhind still found time for smaller, private pieces such as a bust of Theodore Roosevelt.

J. Massey Rhind

Gettysburg Battlefield

Alexander S. Webb, 1915

Abner Doubleday, 1917

John Cleveland Robinson, 1917

Francis C. Barlow, 1922

Public monuments

Washington, D.C.

Nova Scotia

New York and New Jersey

Other

GIRARD, Stephen: Statue at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WANAMAKER, John: Statue at the City Hall (east plaza) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lanape Warrior, Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia, Pennsylvinia 1902 Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Monument on Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John C. Calhoun Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, 1896 George Clinton Monument, Kingston, New York, 1898 (originally in New York City) Henry Hudson Monument, Kingston, New York, 1898 (originally in New York City ) James Wolfe Monument, Calgary, Alberta, 1898 (originally in New York City ) Peter Stuyvesant Monument Kingston, New York, 1898 (originally in New York City ) Peter Stuyvesant Monument, Bergen Square, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1913 Robert Burns Monument, Barre, Vermont, 1899, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1914 Syracuse, New York, 1914 Newark, New Jersey, 1914 William T. Sherman Monument, Muskegon, Michigan, 1900 Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Muskegon, Michigan, 1900 Statues of Samuel Colt, Colt Park, Hartford, Connecticut, 1902–06 Alexander Skene, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 1905 Grand Army of the Republic Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1909 George Washington, Newark, New Jersey, 1914 Bartolomeo Colleoni, reproduction of Andrea del Verrocchio's equestrian sculpture, Newark, New Jersey, 1914 National McKinley Birthplace Memorial, Niles, Ohio, 1917 Nova Scotia Highland soldier, Cenotaph, Chester, Nova Scotia, 1922 Philip Schuyler, Albany, New York, 1925 Britannia, Cenotaph, Grand Parade, Nova Scotia, 1929 Nova Scotia Highland soldier, Cenotaph, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1929 Edward Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, 1931

Fountains

"Rufus H. King Memorial Fountain", Washington Park, Albany, New York, 1893: the theme, specified by King's son, J. Howard King: Moses strikes the rock at Horeb Corning Fountain, Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, 1899 bronze and granite, the fountain is 30 feet tall, with a statue of a deer in the middle surrounded by figures of Saukiog Indians, Hartford's first inhabitants. "Fountain of Apollo", Lakewood, New Jersey, 1902 Erskine Memorial Fountain, Atlanta, Georgia, 1896