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The following is a listing of known Karl Gerhardt works. (Click on the year link to view a description and photos.) Some works listed are based upon descriptions Gerhardt wrote about them in his personal letters. In some cases, Gerhardt's work on a particular piece may have spanned a number of years. Full descriptions of many works are available online at the Smithsonian's inventory of American art. Anyone with additional information on locations of other pieces or additional photos that could be included in this gallery of works is invited to contact Barbara Schmidt.

• Bust of Harriet Josephine Gerhardt

• Drawing of California quail

• Startled Bather

• Atelier Jouffroy

• Medallion of Warner

• Male figure with wings

• St. Sebastian

• Mercury
  
  

• Pandora

• Children's medallion

• Baby's head

• Charles Dudley Warner medallion

• Samuel Clemens medallion

• Olivia Langdon medallion (mother of Olivia Clemens; mother-in-law of Samuel Clemens)

• Millie Fewsmith

• Unidentified mythological grouping

• Olivia Gerhardt

• Eve's Lullaby

• Echo

• Indian on horseback fighting a panther

• Mark Twain bust

• Scenery for Clemens' play Prince and Pauper

• Mark Twain and George Washington Cable medallion

• Ulysses S. Grant bust

• Henry Ward Beecher bust

• Nellie Grant bust (daughter of Fred Grant, granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant)

• Ulysses S. Grant study

• Ulysses S. Grant death mask

• Nathan Hale statue, Capitol Building, Hartford, Connecticut

• Soldiers' Monument, Hoboken, New Jersey - (a generic statue which would also be used in other cities across the country to commemorate Civil War veterans)

• General Israel Putnam, Brooklyn, Connecticut

• John Fitch plaque, Capitol Building, Hartford, Connecticut

• Josiah Bartlett, Amesbury, Massachusetts

• Maj. General G. K. Warren, at Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Carrie Welton Fountain, Waterbury, Connecticut

• Stannards' Vermont State Monument, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Governor Richard Hubbard, Hartford, Connecticut

• Seth Boyden, Newark, New Jersey

• Gravestone marker General George Jerrison Stannard, Burlington, Vermont

• Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Utica, New York

• Death mask for Harriet Rice Coe

• 2nd New York Calvary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Pioneer of the Territory group, Des Moines, Iowa

• Governor Luzon Burritt Morris, Museum of Connecticut History, Hartford, Connecticut

• Frederick Frelinghuysen, Newark, New Jersey

• Bust of Clara Victoria Richards (Mrs. Francis H. Richards) of Connecticut

• Dr. James H. Campbell, Hartford Historical Museum of Medicine and Dentistry, Hartford, Connecticut

• General G. T. Beauregard - equestrian sketch

• Bust of John T. Moore

Karl Gerhardt works with unknown dates

• "Rift in the Fog" - seascape painting with "enveloping fog revealing a fishing sloop" (described in The Shreveport Times, December 30, 1928, p. 2)

• Unidentified painting of a nude woman with Gerhardt standing at the easel (photo in The Shreveport Journal, July 21, 1934, p. 9)

• Alphonse A. LeLong, prominent banker of New Orleans (mentioned in Gerhardt's obituary)

• "Dixie" - painting sold at auction in November 2002
  
  
• "Farm Landscape" - painting sold on ebay April 2008
  
  
• a number of mural paintings in buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana and decorative paintings at the Louisiana State Museum (The Shreveport Times, December 30, 1928, p. 2)
  

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