Dr. Ramon Emeterio Betances, (sculpture)

Object Details

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1994.; Image on file.; (Artist's signature and date are located in the lower left corner of the sculpture) (On plaque in vestibule:) Dr. Ramon Emeterio Betances Bronze Relief/Presented To/The Hartford Board of Education/and Betances School/By/La Casa de Puerto Rico/November 19, 1988/Created By/Juan Luis Andreu signed; The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Summary: Semi-elliptical bas-relief depicts Dr. Ramon Emeterio Betances and objects related to his life and to Puerto Rican history. The figure of Dr. Betances is a bust, with full, wavy hair and a moustache with a long beard. He wears a suit coat. There is a chain running horizontally at the bottom of the piece, to symbolize Dr. Betances' opposition to slavery. A Puerto Rican flag flies behind him. To the left there is a caduceus and to the right is a section of El Morro Castle in San Juan.

1988. Dedicated Nov. 19, 1988

Type: Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture; Sculptures-Relief; Sculptures-Architectural component; Sculptures

Owner/Location: Dr. Ramon Emeterio Betances School 42 Charter Oak Avenue Hartford Connecticut 06106

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic: Portrait male--Bust; Occupation--Medicine--Doctor; Ethnic; History--Puerto Rico; Emblem--Caduceus; Architecture--Castle--El Morro Castle; Object--Other--Flag; Object--Other--Chain