RANDIDGE MONUMENT While you are still at the Robbins monument, as you stand facing the monument look to your right and you will see its’ counterpart about 40 years later, even though it looks different. The Randidge monument of about 1891 was executed by sculptor Adolph Robert Kraus, with the base designed by architect Carl Fehmer. Even though the Randidge monument is much larger in scale than the Robbins monument, the elements are essentially the same, and express the same feelings: the figure of Grief in classical robes leans in sorrow on an inverted torch; funerary urns decorate the four corners of the base. The different materials used—bronze, granite—show the changes in the fields of sculpture and monument making that had taken place in the late nineteenth century, when Paris and the Beaux-Arts (“beautiful arts”) school had replaced Italy as the center of the art world, and when bronze and granite also replaced marble as the dominant sculptural materials.

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