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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 3, 2015
Caption: General Artemas Ward
Additional Description: This 1936 statue by Leonard Crunelle was unveiled by Mrs. Lewis Wesley Feick, a direct descendant of Artemas Ward, on November 3, 1938 and paid for with a grant from Wards great-grandson “Artemis Ward of the Seventh Generation”, a Harvard alumnus.

“General Ward is tall, thin, and majestic-looking, with a definite air of command that undoubtedly projects out over a specially designed Washington traffic circle. This is curious, considering that most sources describe General Ward as round and dumpy. The bronze version is thus a polar opposite. Yet a short, fat General Ward would not do if the goal was to create an icon, suitable by Artemas Ward of the Seventh Generation's standards, to represent both the family and his own posterity.” — Rebecca Anne Goetz, General Artemas Ward: A Forgotten Revolutionary Remembered and Reinvented
Submitted: May 15, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p307938
File Size: 3.544 Megabytes

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