Joseph Mozier

The Prodigal Son (c. 1857), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Mozier (August 22, 1812 – October 3, 1870) was an American sculptor active in Italy.

He was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1812. In 1831 he moved to New York City, where he worked as a merchant. He retired from business around 1845, and shortly afterward went to Europe, studying sculpture for several years in Florence, after which he moved to Rome.

His best-known work is Undine, the title character in the novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, a water nymph who falls in love with a man. He won a grand prize for it in Rome in 1867.

He made a short visit to the United States in 1870, and was hospitalized upon his return in London, England. He died in , Switzerland, while en route to his home in Italy.^[1]

A woman (Pocahontas) standing half draped in fur skin tunic holding a cross in right hand, leash in left hand and a reclining fawn.

Selected works[]

• Bust of Pocahontas (1848), Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. A replica at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
• Bust of Diana (c. 1850), Locust Lawn Estate, New Paltz, New York.
• Pocahontas (1854), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.^[2] A replica at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, Connecticut.
• Truth (1855), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.^[3]
• Silence (1855), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.^[4]
• Rebecca at the Well (1855), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Replicas at New York Historical Society, New York City; Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; Patterson Public Library, Paterson, New Jersey; and Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.^[5]
• The American Schoolboy (Young America) (1857), Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island.^[6] A replica at Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
• The Prodigal Son (c. 1857), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Indian Girl's Lament (1858), Cammie G. Henry Research Center, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana. A replica at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.
• Queen Esther (c. 1858).
• The Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish (1862), Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, Connecticut.^[7] Replicas at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; and Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York.
• Jephthah's Daughter (1865),^[8]
• Il Penseroso (1866), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.^[9]
• Undine (1867), Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.^[10] Replicas at Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; and Boll Theatre, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.
• The Peri (c. 1867), Acklen Mausoleum, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee.^[11]
• Flower Girl (Springtime) (1867), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.^[12] A replica at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York.
• The Vigil of Rizpah (1869), Spanierman Gallery, New York City.^[13]
• The White Lady of Avenel (1869), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Replicas at Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey; and University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
• Thomas Moore as a Boy (1870), Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York.

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  Bust of Pocohantas (1848), Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.

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  Il Penseroso (1866), on exhibit at the U.S. Capitol.

References[]

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• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889.
• Madeleine B. Stern, "New England Artists in Italy 1835-1855", The New England Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1941), pp. 243–271.
• "Joseph Mozier" from AskArt.

External links[]

• Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Mozier (see index)
• Joseph Mozier from SIRIS.