Statue of Philip Kearny
sculptures by Henry Kirke Brown
Philip Kearny is an 1888 bronze sculpture of Philip Kearny by Henry Kirke Brown, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the state of New Jersey.
Description and history
The statue portrays Kearny dressed in the uniform of a Civil War general, holding a sword in his right hand. His coat draped over his left shoulder covers the fact that his left arm had been amputated following the Battle of Churubusco.
Although the statue entered the Hall in 1888 it is dated "1873" on the base. Kearny, described by William Walter Phelps while accepting the statue into the collection on August 21, 1888, called Kearny "the perfect soldier . . .brave as a lion, tender as a woman." A bill to replace the statue in the Capitol with one of suffragist Alice Paul passed the New Jersey Senate on February 10, 2020.
There are at least three other castings of the statue. One done in 1901 is located in Kearny Park, Muskegon, Michigan.
Another was dedicated in 1880 in Trenton, New Jersey and then relocated several times, finally to Military Park in Newark, New Jersey.
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