A bronze statue of Charles Sumner, by sculptor Anne Whitney, is installed in General MacArthur Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[2] The sculpture of Sumner, a popular local statesman, was commissioned by the Boston Art Committee shortly after his death in 1874.

In 1875, the Boston Art Committee hosted a blind competition[3][4][5] for model sculptures of Sumner.

The New York Evening Telegram wrote a verse which starts: "You see, ’tis a fixed law of art, my friend, That only a man can superintend The play of muscle and post of limb, Whenever a statue is made of him.

Yet under the dome of the Capitol Stands Samuel Adams erect and tall, As free as his namesake before the fall; And though the image was carved by woman Rarely is marble so grandly human.