Samuel Gompers
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Object Details
- Artist
- Moses Wainer Dykaar, 1884 - 10 Mar 1933
- Sitter
- Samuel Gompers, 27 Jan 1850 - 13 Dec 1924
- Exhibition Label
- A leader in the Cigarmakers International Union in the 1870s, Samuel Gompers took issue with those who saw unions as vehicles for political influence or the transformation of capitalism: he believed that the labor movement's sole purpose was to improve wages, hours, and working conditions. Adhering to this limited mission, he organized the American Federation of Labor in 1886 and made it the most influential union in America. When he posed for this bust in the last year of his life, he told the sculptor, Moses Dykaar, "I want bread and butter for the working man and an hour to think."
- Provenance
- Artist’s son, David E. Dykaar; gift to NPG 1969
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of David E. Dykaar, 1968
- 1924
- Object number
- NPG.69.78
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- White marble
- Dimensions
- Without Base: 59.7 x 40 x 38.4cm (23 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 15 1/8")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 1900-1930 (re-installation 2012)
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 322
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie\Necktie
- Samuel Gompers: Male
- Samuel Gompers: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Labor leader
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.69.78
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4fb1a00c9-70ce-4c6c-a757-2704f44d97e3
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