Sally James Farnham was an American sculptor noted especially for her public monuments and memorials.
Sculptor Sally James Farnham. Photo: Library of Congress
Signature of the artist on the monument in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Defenders of the Flag in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
Simon Bolivar (1921) Located in Central Park in New York City, New York
Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Rochester, New York, United States. Founded in 1838, it is the burial site of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Situated on 196 acres of land adja
Sally James Farnham
…in the Civil War. By 1907, she was regarded as "one of the leading female sculptors working on a heroic scale in America". Defenders of the Flag in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY In 1910, she was commissioned to create a frieze for the Pan American Union building in Washington D.C. This work, called the Frieze of…
Gate House of Mount Hope Cemetery
Sally (Sara) James Farnham sculpture, Defenders of the Flag, in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York
The gravestone of Frederick Douglass at Mount Hope
View of grave markers in Section L