Victory

Victory’s principal model was Hettie Anderson, a Black woman who posed for many artists in New York around 1900. The sculpture was adapted from the full-size version on Saint-Gaudens’s monument to the Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman (1892–1903; Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan). A triumphant guiding force, this winged allegorical figure wears a laurel crown and holds a palm frond—both traditional emblems of victory.