Statue of Crawford Long explained

Crawford Long
Italic Title:	no
Artist:	J. Massey Rhind
Medium:	Marble sculpture
Subject:	Crawford Long
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
City:	Washington, D.C., U.S.

Crawford Long is a 1926 marble sculpture depicting the American surgeon and pharmacist of the same name by J. Massey Rhind, 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 U.S. state of Georgia.^[1]

The work was unveiled on unveiled March 30, 1926.^[2]

As befitted the subject, Rhind had the statue carved from Georgia marble^[3] by Georgia sculptor James K Watt.^[4]

See also

• 1926 in art

Notes and References

1. Architect of the Capitol Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol, United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1965 p. 211
2. Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation’s Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955 pp. 26–27
3. Web site: Structures and Monuments in Which Georgia Stone was Used. quarriesandbeyond.org.
4. Book: Boland, Frank Kells. The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long. 1 April 2009. University of Georgia Press. 9780820334363. Google Books.