Larkin Goldsmith Mead

Career

Selected works

• Recording Angel, marble, 1855. A replica of this adorns Mead's grave in Florence, Italy.
• Agriculture, gilded wood, atop Vermont Statehouse dome, Montpelier, Vermont, 1858, replaced with a copy 1938.
• Ethan Allen, marble, by main entrance to Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, Vermont, 1858–61, replaced with a copy 1941.
• Bust of General George McClellan, unlocated, 1862.
• Echo, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, ca. 1862–63. Replicas of this are at the Boston Public Library, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Bust of Venezia, marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1865–66. This is believed to be a portrait of Mead's wife.
• Returned Soldier, Italian marble, Connecticut Veterans Home, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, 1865-67. A replica of this is at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
• America, marble, atop Soldiers' Monument, Courthouse Park, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 1866–68.
• Thought, marble, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Maine, 1868.
• Columbus's Last Appeal to Queen Isabella, California State Capitol, Sacramento, California, 1868–71.
• Bust of Abraham Lincoln, Hall of Inscriptions, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, Vermont, ca. 1871. A study for Mead's statue at the Lincoln Tomb.
• Ethan Allen, marble, National Statuary Hall Collection, United States Capitol, Washington, DC, 1876. A replica of this is at Fort Ticonderoga in Ticonderoga, New York.
• Bas-relief Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1883.
• Bas-relief of The Inauguration of George Washington as First President, bronze, ca. 1889.
• The Triumph of Ceres, north portico of the Agricultural Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893. His brother, William Rutherford Mead, was the building's architect.
• The Return of Proserpine From the Realms of Pluto, unlocated, ca. 1893. Exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition.
• Ione, marble, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Maine, ca. 1897.
• Leland Stanford and Family, bronze, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1899.
• Mississippi - The Father of Waters, marble, Minneapolis City Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1903–06.
• La Contadinella, unlocated.
• Sappho, unlocated.
• Portrait of John Hay, bronze, unlocated.
• Portrait of William Dean Howells, bronze, unlocated.
• Portrait of Henry James, bronze, unlocated.

  Lincoln Tomb, Springfield, Illinois

• United States Coat of Arms, bronze, ca. 1870.
• Statue of Abraham Lincoln, bronze, 1871–72.
• The Infantry Group, bronze, 1874–76.
• The Naval Group, bronze, 1874–77.
• The Artillery Group, bronze, 1882.
• The Cavalry Group, bronze, 1883.