Greenhut Mausoleum Sculptural Door and Transom

SUBJECTS: Bronze Door with Angel and Cherubs with menorah

SCULPTOR: Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949)

FOUNDRY: Roman Bronze Works

MEDIUM: Bronze

LOCATION: Salem Fields Cemetery

775 Jamaica Ave, Brooklyn NY

YEAR DED.: 1913

A conservation treatment with existing patina retained. Coated with hot and cold wax.

About Jose B Greenhut- Retired Union Army Colonel - industrialist, patent holder and President of the Siegel- Cooper Company

About Robert Ingersoll Aiken- (sculptor)- In addition to this sculpture- Aiken also sculpted the pediment -containing (9) figures on the western elevation of the US Supreme Court

About Audrey Munson- (figure on the door) American artist model and film actress