Artist: Earl Melvin Cummings
Date: 1922
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 20 x 21 x 11 inches
Collection: State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection
Location: 4th floor
A grandson of Brigham Young, Richard was a teacher, and he was educated at the U.S. Military Academy and Columbia Law School. He worked as a prominent business lawyer in Utah, but his legal practice was interrupted twice by war. He organized the Armed Forces of Utah for the Spanish-American War and World War I. From 1899 to 1901, following the Spanish-American War, he served as a Supreme Court Justice in the Philippine Islands.