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Bust of Clara Barton
Anton Benson
Clara Barton National Historic Site, National Park Service
Glen Echo, MD, United States
Benson studied with Ulysses S. Dunbar. At the request of Dr. Julian Hubbell, Dunbar made a death mask of Miss Barton after she died in 1912. After Dunbar’s death, Benson completed the bust with Dunbar sculpting tools. Barton's death mask is at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
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- Title: Bust of Clara Barton
- Creator: Anton Benson
- Location: Washington, DC
- Contributor: Clara Barton National Historic Site National Park Service
- Original Source: http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/clba/exb/Recognition/gifts_honors/CLBA555_ClaraBartonSculpture.html
- Source: Clara Barton National Historic Site
- National Park Service Catalog Number: CLBA555
- Measurements: H 62.0, W 39.0, D 22.5 cm
- Materials: Plaster
- Date: c 1927
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