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Saint John the Evangelist
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About this work
Saint John the Evangelist was one of the few allegorical sculptures that Thomas Ball made in his life. It was a private commission that Ball agreed to do partly because of his own deep religious faith. The idealized style and white marble present him as a holy, inspired man. Ball took great pride in this statue because his friend Hiram Powers, the most prominent and controversial American sculptor of the day, had said it was his finest work.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineSaint John the Evangelist. 1875. Thomas Ball, born Charlestown, MA 1819-died Montclair, NJ 1911. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Robert and Judith Bahssin. CC0.
