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Mystery Monday: recognize that face?
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:00am March 20 2023
This famous visage appears on a Yale building. Who is it, where is it, and what is this person's connection to Yale?
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Mystery Monday, stone carving
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George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 4:19am April 18 2023 | 
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Mark Branch, 9:12am April 26 2023 | 
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George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 1:24am May 04 2023 | 
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The comment period has expired.<> Edward A. Bouchet [1852-1918] <> B.S. Yale College 1874 <> Ph.D. Physics 1876. First Black student to earn a Ph.D. from any American university <> Phi Beta Kappa 1884 <> In my opinion a 1913 photo was the model for Patrick Pinnell's bas relief. Pauli Murray College's stone ornament tends to honor the sciences. <<>> My SECOND GUESS would be Duke Ellington. His eyebrows are a match. His 1968 concert at Woolsey Hall is a classic. I was lucky enough to hear his 1972 Woolsey concert, part of Willie Ruff's "Conservatory Without Walls" that created the Ellington Fellowships at the School of Music.
Duke Ellington is right! I'm envious--I would love to have been at those concerts!
<> I should have guessed Ellington first...You posted a puzzler months ago about a Murray College carving honoring Cole Porter...One of the courtyards must have a musical theme to its bas reliefs...The guide for Benjamin Franklin College's commemorative sculptures put out (I presume) by RAMSA is on the internet as a PDF....Do you have access to a RAMSA guide to the ornamentation of Pauli Murray College?