Museum Collections

Portrait bust: One of several models for bronze for the Hall of Fame at New York University, New York City; on the base are images of ravens, the mysterious bird of Poe's famous poem; spinach-green stippled to resemble patinated bronze, s-shape construction of head, shoulders and upper and lower base; head and gaze of man in prime turned slightly to left; hair parted on left falling in curling waves over top of ears, wide forehead, horizontal brow; long nose with neatly trimmed moustache on short upper lip; wearing wide bow tie, collared shirt, and collarless overcoat buttoned at neck and open beneath, revealing bloused shirt; tricornered upper base, perpendicular front with low-relief of wreath encircling open book surmounting arabian lamp, flanked by raven and cat in profile to represent Poe's stories.