Roger B. Taney

Roger B. Taney
Baltimore, Maryland


Roger B. Taney, Baltimore, Maryland, 1887
William Henry Rinehart
Bronze
89 x 50 x 64 in. (226.1 x 127 x 162.6 cm)
City of Baltimore, Maryland


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Roger B. Taney


Sponsor: William T. Walters (1820-1894)
Dedicated: 1887
Removed: 2017

Roger B. Taney (1777-1864) served as U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His thirty-year career as a justice is rightly overshadowed by his decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford [sic] (1857), one of the Supreme Court’s most egregious rulings. Dred Scott (1799-1858) sued his enslaver John F. A. Sanford for emancipation on the grounds that because Sanford resided in a free state, Scott was entitled to his freedom. Ruling in favor of Sanford, Taney wrote that Black Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens and “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Going far beyond the parameters of the case at hand, he single-handedly redefined the concept of citizenship in America. This ruling also determined that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which prohibited slavery north of the Mason-Dixon line, was unconstitutional on the grounds that it interfered with the property rights of enslavers. Although Taney had sought to settle the “slavery question,” he instead exacerbated the issue. Along with the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), and John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry (1859), the Dred Scott decision hastened the outbreak of the Civil War.

A Maryland native, Taney was a controversial figure during and after his lifetime. The Dred Scott decision was met with such deep and widespread condemnation that it is often credited with helping to get Lincoln elected. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, summed up popular sentiment when he said that the Dred Scott decision “forfeited respect for [Taney] as a man [and] a judge.” Tellingly, the government refused to install a bust of Taney in the U.S. Capitol, a gesture the Maryland state legislature took as a slight against one of their own and, in 1870, appropriated $15,000 in state funds to commission a statue. The monument was made by Baltimore artist William Henry Rinehart, who lived in Rome. It was erected in front of the statehouse in Annapolis in 1872. William T. Walters, a prominent industrialist, art collector, and Confederate sympathizer, commissioned a copy that was installed in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Square Park in 1887. When local Democratic Party infighting hampered the planned schedule of speakers for the dedication ceremony, the event was scaled down to an unveiling by Taney’s nine-year-old great-grandson and three cheers for Walters (who was not in attendance).

Rinehart’s portrait of Taney is stern and imposing. Seated and wearing judicial robes, the figure holds a scroll in one hand and rests the other on a tome labeled the Constitution. Looking down upon the viewer, his aging face expresses the weight of his legacy. Throughout the statue’s life in the park, it was a target of vandalism. A 1960 article in The Evening Sun reminded readers that sitting in the statue’s lap or drawing a mustache on it would incur a fine of $100 (over $1,000 in 2024). The monument was removed in 2017 following the violence of the Unite the Right rally. The Annapolis statue was taken down two days later.

In the 1990s, state legislators had attempted to replace the Taney statue in Annapolis with one of the recently deceased Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall. Black delegates on the House Appropriations Committee, including Howard Rawlings, father of Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, future mayor of Baltimore, opposed the proposal, claiming that it would be divisive. Taney’s statue remained, but one of Marshall was installed in 1996. Additionally, a bust of Marshall is set to replace a bust of Taney in the U.S. Capitol that was removed in 2023.

 

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Roger B. Taney, Baltimore, Maryland, 1887
William Henry Rinehart
Bronze
89 x 50 x 64 in. (226.1 x 127 x 162.6 cm)
City of Baltimore, Maryland

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Roger B. Taney (detail)
Photo by Alex Batson

Archival photo of bronze statue of Roger B. Taney atop a granite base in a park. The statue depicts Taney dressed in judicial robes, holding a scroll, and leaning on a book labeled constitution. Inscription on the base reads "Roger B. Taney of Maryland Chief Justice"


Roger B. Taney, Baltimore, Maryland, 1887
William Henry Rinehart, sculptor
Munich Royal Foundry, fabricator
Gill & McMahon, carver
Bronze statue on Maryland granite base
Courtesy Enoch Pratt Free Library

Installation view down a hallway. Three bronze statues are visible. A series of framed works hang on the opposite wall.


Roger B. Taney (installation view)
Photo by Frederik Nilsen

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Jeff Davis Ave. Newspaper: The Montgomery Advertiser· Apr 17, 1986

The Montgomery Advertiser· Apr 17, 1986

Jeff Davis Ave. Newspaper: The Montgomery Advertiser· Apr 16, 1986

The Montgomery Advertiser· Apr 16, 1986

Jeff Davis Ave. Newspaper: Alabama Journal· Apr 16, 1986

Alabama Journal· Apr 16, 1986

Jeff Davis Ave. Newspaper: Alabama Journal · Mar 24, 1986

Alabama Journal · Mar 24, 1986

Jeff Davis Ave. Newspaper: Montgomery Advertiser, 7 Jan 1890

The Montgomery Advertiser· Jan 7, 1890

Jeff Davis Ave. Newspaper: Montgomery Advertiser, 7 Jan 1890

The Montgomery Advertiser· Jan 7, 1890

A stack of bronze ingots on top of a wooden pallet

Ingots from Robert E. lee Monument, Charlottesville, Virginia

Swords Into Plowshares

2023
Bronze
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

Josephus Daniels

Josephus Daniels

János Farkas

1985
Bronze
Daniels Family Charitable Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina

Roger B. Taney

Roger B. Taney

William Henry Rinehart

1887
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Bronze statue of Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson on horseback. Jackson wears a Confederate uniform and kepi hat. Lee wears a Confederate uniform, overcoat, and brimmed hat.

Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson

Laura Gardin Fraser

1948
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Bronze statue of a seated man in a suit covered in yellow, green, red, and black graffiti.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Frederick William Sievers

1929
Bronze
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

A bronze statue that has been splattered with yellow and pink paint. It lays on its back with its arm outstretched to the sky. The face and head have been flattened.

Jefferson Davis & Vindicatrix

Edward V. Valentine

1907
Bronze
The Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

Installation view of slabs of granite that have been graffiti'd

Fragments from Robert E. Lee monument base

Paul Pujol

1890
Granite
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

Three green street signs installed on a column. One sign reading "Rosa L. Parks Ave" hangs from one side side. Two signs reading "W Jeff Davis Ave" and "W Fred D Gray Ave" hangs from another side

W. Jeff Davis Ave. & Rosa L. Parks Ave. & Fred Gray Ave.

Aluminum
City of Montgomery, Alabama

A vertical bronze statue which recombines elements of a general and his horse charging into battle. A disembodied arm hangs off the base while another holds a sword in its hand blade first. Four horses legs sprout out of a central mass of limbs and a horses snout protrudes from its belly. A faceless head dangles from the top.

Unmanned Drone

Kara Walker

2023
Bronze statue made from Chales Keck's 1921 statue of Stonewall Jackson, which stood in Charlottesville Virginia and was decomissioned in 2021
Commissioned by The Brick
Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins

HOMEGOING by Davóne Tines & Julie Dash

HOMEGOING

Davóne Tines & Julie Dash

2025
Two channel video projection (color, sound)
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artists

Sculpture in the shape of civil war cap with latticed exterior, steel brim, and crosshair at the top

Tabernacle

Martin Puryear

2019
Steel, red cedar, American cypress, pine, makore veneer, canvas, printed cotton fabric, glass, stainless steel
Glenstone Museum

Double exposed black and white portraits of a young Black girl and a young white woman superimposed on one or another

Studio Portraits

Hugh Mangum

Untitled, ca. 1897-1922
Courtesy of the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Three reflective black trapezoidal sculptures stand in a triangular arrangement

Rate of Transformation, Distance

Torkwase Dyson

2018/2025
Wood and acrylic
Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery

Animation of monument forms made of many white dots on a black background. Some forms are in the process of dissolving.

An American Reflection

Monument Lab

2025
Digital video (black and white; sound)
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

A bronze statue of a woman in a draping robe pointing her finger to the sky is placed in the corner with its back to the camera. It sits in front of two reflective black walls. Red, purple, and blue theater lights shine. A camera on a post hangs from the ceiling.

The Warden

Cauleen Smith

2025
CCTV camera, single-channel live feed video
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

A Black woman wearing a long white skirt, white pumps, and a draped white fabric that partially covers her breasts stands in an empty lot looking towards the camera directly. Multistory brick buildings can be seen in the background and to her right and left are two murals, one of which includers the American flag.

White Shoes series

Nona Faustine

Ye Are My Witness, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Pigment Print
Courtesy of the Estate of Nona Faustine and Higher Pictures

Practice, Practice, Practice by Kevin Jerome Everson

Practice, Practice, Practice

Kevin Jerome Everson

2024
Single channel video projection transferred from 16 mm film (black and white; sound)
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

Bronze cast models of a city landscape with trees, billboard, smokestacks, armored police cars, and telephone poles atop metal tables.

New Nation (States) Battle of Manassas - 2014

Kahlil Robert Irving

2024-2025
Cast bronze
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

Large painting with light blue background with bands of dark blue, light orange, deep orange, and maroon comprised of the artist's footsteps

Cadence Series

Walter Price

Evidence of progression, 2023
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Private collection

Bronze statue of winged female allegorical figure holding a dying young soldier in one arm and holding up a laurel wreath with the other. Red paint has been splashed on the monument

Confederate Soldiers & Sailors

Frederick W. Ruckstuhl

1903
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Five channel video installation that is set in Reconstruction era South Carolina. Three channels show a white woman speaking with a Black man in an army uniform. The Black man is played by three different actors, one of whom is a white man in blackface. In one channel a white man is shown in profile walking through town. In the final channel, a man hunting in a field with bow and arrows is shown from behind.

Birth of a Nation

Stan Douglas

2025
Five-channel video installation (color; silent)
Commissioned by the Hartwig Art Foundation with The Brick
Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

A mass of wooden china cabinets and scaffolding covered in singed fabric with glowing orange, red, and blue lights.

Deo Vindice
(Orion's Cabinet)

Abigail DeVille

2025
China cabinets, charcoal, rusted steel scaffolding, pig blood, salt, mud, lights, and natural fiber
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

A plaster sculpture depicting a teen boy holding a small replica of a statue of a man on a horse. The sculpture stands atop a pedestal.

Descendant

Karon Davis

2025
Plywood, MDF, latex paint, metal hardware, steel, aluminum, fiberglass
Commissioned by MOCA and The Brick
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94

Scattered rose petals carved from granite sit amidst a large slab of granite (front view)

Love is dangerous

Bethany Collins

2024-2025
Pink granite
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; and PATRON Gallery, Chicago

Newspaper: The Baltimore Sun · Oct 21, 1923

The Baltimore Sun · Oct 21, 1923

A bright orange Dodge Charger with a Confederate battle flag on the top of the car stands upright, nose first, in a sand box. "01" is painted in black block letters on the door and "General Lee" in blue text surrounds the battle flag on the hood.

A Suspension of Hostilities

Hank Willis Thomas

2019 
1969 Dodge Charger Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery

The Klan Series by Andres Serrano

The Klan Series

Andres Serrano

Klansman, Grand Dragon, 1990
Pigment print
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

Newspaper: Memorial Exhibition At Maryland Institute

The Montgomery Times (Montgomery, Alabama)
Sat, Apr 22, 1905

Bronze statue of a standing woman looking off into the distance. Below her, another woman holds a dying Confederate soldier

Confederate Women of Maryland

J. Maxwell Miller

1917
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Number 363 by Leonardo Drew

Number 363

Leonardo Drew

2023
Cotton and matte medium
Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Stranger Fruit by Jon Henry

Stranger Fruit Series

Jon Henry

Untitled #31, 2017
Digital archival print on matte paper
Courtesy of the artist

Newspaper: The Baltimore Sun · Oct 26, 1918

The Baltimore Sun · Oct 26, 1918

Newspaper: The Baltimore Sun · May 14, 1933

The Baltimore Sun · May 14, 1933

Newspaper: Confederate Monument

The Montgomery Times (Montgomery, Alabama) Sat, Apr 22, 1905

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