Works of Karl Gerhardt 1883

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1883

MEDALLION OF CHILDREN
PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE

This work is mentioned in a letter from Gerhardt to Clemens dated February 6, 1883.

BABY'S HEAD
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This work is mentioned in a letter from Gerhardt to Clemens dated February 6, 1883.

MEDALLION OF CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
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In a letter dated February 2, 1883, Gerhardt wrote Clemens he was beginning work on this medallion. On February 25, he wrote the Warner medallion was complete.

In a letter dated March 23, 1883, Gerhardt wrote Clemens that he had completed another medallion of Clemens. This medallion is owned by the Mark Twain Library in
Redding, CT.

Photo courtesy of
Helen Stauderman
The Mark Twain Library
Redding, CT.

Olivia Langdon, mother-in-law of Samuel Clemens.

May 7, 1883, Gerhardt wrote a letter mentioning his work on a medallion of Mrs. Langdon.

Two years later on June 5, 1885, Clemens asked Gerhardt to make another copy of Mrs. Langdon's medallion for his wife Olivia.

Photo courtesy of Mark Twain Archives, Elmira College, New York.

Millie Fewsmith. Enclosed in a letter from Karl Gerhardt to Samuel and Olivia Clemens dated July 15 1883. Mr. Fewsmith had been a classmate of Clemens' friend Joseph Twichell. The Fewsmiths befriended the Gerhardts while they were living in Paris.

Photo courtesy of the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Unidentifed work in progress which includes the mythological Mercury. Enclosed in a letter from Karl Gerhardt to Samuel and Olivia Clemens dated July 15, 1883.

Photo courtesy of the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Photo with the inscription:

"Hurried sketch of our baby made in an hour & 1/2."

Olivia Gerhardt born March 7, 1883. Photo enclosed in a letter from Karl Gerhardt to Samuel and Olivia Clemens dated July 15, 1883. On August 6, 1883, Harriet Josephine Gerhardt wrote the Clemens that their daughter looked much like the bust her father had made.

Photo courtesy of the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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