Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo New York
William Arthur Rogers
(1851-1946)
The dramatic 10-foot bronze sculpture “Aspiration” was created in 1926 by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) for the Rogers monument in the Forest Lawn Cemetery at Buffalo, New York. Frishmuth was well known for her sculptures of women. Frishmuth studied briefly with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Cuno Von Uechtritz-Steinkirch at Berlin, and Gutzon Borglum in New York.
In 1933, another version of the “Aspiration” was carved out of a single block of granite for the Henry Berwind (1859-1932) monument in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The stone version of “Aspiration” marks the grave of businessman Henry “Harry” Berwind, vice president of the Berwind-White Coal Company, run by his brother, Edward.
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gravely Speaking 
What a beautiful statue…what a wonderful gift Frishmuth had… do many people purchase statues of this kind today? Is this a “past” thing? About how much would one of these run today?
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Hi! I found another “Aspiration” like the Berwind one: this one on the Manns monument in Druid Ridge Cemetery outside of Baltimore. May I have your permission to use your photo from Forest Lawn in a comparative discussion of the three?
Yes, if you will share your photo so I can do the same. Sound like a good swap?
Yes, sure! Is there a way to go to email so I can send high-res photos?
There is another sculpture in St Catherine’s Cemetery in East Windsor, Connecticut. I saw it today. I could not post the photo, but it is by this artist and it is a bronze.
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Thank you for sharing the link. As you know, I wrote about this monument: https://gravelyspeaking.com/2015/08/17/roses-of-yesterday/
Two other commissions can be found in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Buffalo and the Berwind Memorial in the Laurel Hill Cemetery at Philadelphia, where Frishmuth, the sculptor is buried.
The sculpture is titled, “Aspiration” and was created in 1926 by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) for the William Arthur Rogers (1851-1946) monument in the Forest Lawn Cemetery at Buffalo, New York.
In 1933, another version of the “Aspiration” was carved out of a single block of granite for the Henry Berwind (1859-1932) monument in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The stone version of “Aspiration” marks the grave of businessman Henry “Harry” Berwind, vice president of the Berwind-White Coal Company, run by his brother, Edward.