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George Brewster (sculptor)

March 06, 2023

George Thomas Brewster (1862–1943) was an American sculptor and architectural sculptor, known for his portraits and war memorials. Brewster also taught modeling at Cooper Union beginning 1900; Art Students League of New York beginning 1886; and Rhode Island School of Design, between 1893 and 1894.

Independent Man (1899-1900), atop Rhode Island State House
Alexander Hamilton, 1793 at Hamilton College, 1918
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, 1920

Life and education

Brewster was born on February 24, 1862, in Kingston.[1] He studied first at the Massachusetts State Normal Art School in Boston, and then for three years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. His teachers there included Augustin Dumont and Antonin Mercie.[2]

Selected works

Works in the Vicksburg National Military Park

Main article: Vicksburg National Military Park

Gallery

Relief portraits at Vicksburg National Military Park

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    Col. Eugene Erwin (1916)

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    Lt. Col. Sidney H. Griffin (1919)

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    Lt. Col. Madison Rogers (1919)

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    Lt. Col. Melancthon Smith (1916)

References

  1. ^ "You are being redirected..." ctstatelibrary.org.
  2. ^ David B. Dearinger (2004). Paintings & Sculpture at the Nat. Academy ofDesign, Vol. 1: 1826-1925. Hudson Hills. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.
  3. ^ Rick A. Ball (1975). Indianapolis Architecture. Indiana Architectural Foundation.
  4. ^ "IDOA: History of the Victory Sculpture". www.in.gov.
  5. ^ Janet Hayden Jagger; Domenic Carbone (Jr.); Warrren Jagger; Thomas S. Michie; William McKenzie Woodward (2002). Most Admirable: The Rhode Island State House. Rhode Island State House Restoration Society. ISBN 978-0-9718523-0-3.
  6. ^ "Alexander Hamilton, 1793, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  7. ^ a b Fitts, Deborah (January 2004). . Civil War News. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  8. ^ "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". siris-artinventories.si.edu.
 
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