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Robert Arneson

The Blessed John N. Neumann

Description

Maker

Robert Arneson (American, 1930-1992)

Title

The Blessed John N. Neumann

Year

1976

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

glaze, terracotta

Dimensions

52.1 x 54.6 x 38.1 cm (20 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 15 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on left shoulder:Arneson 1976; on back:Fourth Bishop of Philadelphia1811 John1860NepomuceneNeumanC.SS.R.DD.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Richard Brown Baker

Object Number

81.290

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here that we may go to bed at night and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul for a purpose.

-John Nepomucene Neumann (American, 1811-1860), Roman Catholic priest and the first and only American citizen canonized as a saint

Contemporary Crafts
Ten Years of Collecting
Jan 19, 1990 – Mar 18, 1990
Recent Gifts and Acquisitions
Nov 05, 1982 – Jan 02, 1983

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Robert Arneson (American, 1930-1992)
The Blessed John N. Neumann, 1976
glazed ceramic
52.1 x 54.6 x 38.1 cm (20 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 15 inches)
Gift of Richard Brown Baker 81.290

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