About This Artwork

Joseph Mozier
American, 1812-1870

Pocahontas, 1868 (after original, carved 1854)

Marble
h. 121.8 cm (48 in.) on original marble pedestal
Signed, dated, and inscribed (on the base): "J. MOZIER. Sc:/ROME. 1868"
Titled (on the base): "POCAHONTAS"
The Roger McCormick and J. Peter McCormick Endowments, 1997.366

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 201-202, no. 92.

Kirk Savage, “Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman and the Meaning of the Civil War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), pp. 26-39, fig. 8.

Ownership History

Frank Brykowski, by 1939; by descent to Trudie Brykowksi, Lake Zurich, Ill.,; sold by her to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.