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William Rudolf O’Donovan
Biography William Rudolf O’Donovan (March 28, 1844 – April 20, 1920) was an American sculptor. O’Donovan was born in Preston County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He was self-taught as a sculptor. After the Civil War, in which O’Donovan served in the Confederate army, he opened a studio in New York City and became well known… Continue reading
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Frederick William MacMonnies
Biography Frederick William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was an expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly accomplished painter and portraitist. He was born in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York and died in New… Continue reading
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John Hemenway Duncan
Biography John Hemenway Duncan (January 21, 1854 – October 18, 1929) was an American architect. Duncan’s reputation was established ater being selected as the architect of Grant’s Tomb, a monumental structure reminiscent of the ancient Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Another of Duncan’s most famous works is the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch in Grand Army Plaza in… Continue reading
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Richard Morris Hunt
Biography Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of American architecture. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance façade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the pedestal of… Continue reading
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Harry Siddons Mowbray
Biography Harry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist. He executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan, F.W. Vanderbilt, and other clients. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 1902 to 1904. Mowbray was born of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt. His father, John Henry Siddons, represented… Continue reading
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Charles Follen McKim
Biography Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead & White. McKim was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His parents were James Miller… Continue reading
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Daniel Burnham
Biography Daniel Hudson Burnham FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been, “the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced.” After unsuccessful attempts at entering Harvard and Yale, Burnham worked at the architectural firm… Continue reading
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Stanford White
Biography Stanford White, (November 9, 1853 — June 25, 1906), American architect who was the most imaginative partner in the influential architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White. Stanford White was the son of the essayist, critic, and Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White. He was carefully trained as an architect by Henry Hobson Richardson. In June… Continue reading
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John La Farge
Biography John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge made stained glass windows, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning with a large commission for Henry… Continue reading
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Cass Gilbert
Biography Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was an American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West Virginia, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House (Now the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in… Continue reading
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