Dudley Pratt (June 14, 1897 – November 18, 1975) was an American sculptor. He was born in

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to Boston sculptors Bela and Helen Pratt. His sculptural education included study under Charles Grafly,

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, and

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. Pratt married fellow sculptor Virginia Claflin while they were students at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The couple moved to

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in 1925, and Pratt began teaching at the

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's School of Art. After Virginia's death in 1952, Pratt relocated to

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, where he met and married the painter Colette (Finch) Halvorsen. In 1965, the Pratts moved to

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, Mexico; Pratt died there in 1975. Pratt's major work includes sculpture for several buildings on the University of Washington's Seattle campus (Hutchinson Hall, the

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, Smith Hall, More Hall, Gerberding Hall, and the

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), as well as sculpture for the Hoquiam City Hall, the Bellingham City Hall, the Everett Public Library in

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, and the former Doctors Hospital in Seattle, now part of the Virginia Mason Medical Center campus. His

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, and his limestone ''The Reader'' adorns Holland Library on the

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campus in

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. He sculpted many freestanding works as well, four of which are in the collection of the

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. His students included sculptors

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and

Jean Johanson Jean Louise P. Johanson (October 3, 1911 – March 1, 2000) was an American sculptor, mosaic artist, and jewelry designer. Early years and education Johanson was born in Spokane, Washington in 1911. She was a student of sculptor Dudley Pratt, R ...

References

*"Collette Finch Pratt, 98: Artist, Teacher, Beloved Matriarch." ''Provincetown assachusettsBanner,'' May 17, 2001. *"Dudley Pratt, Sculptor, Dead at 78." ''Seattle

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Times,'' November 19, 1975. *"Dudley Pratt, UW Art Luminary, Dies." ''Seattle

Post-Intelligencer,'' November 19, 1975. *Kingsbury, Martha. ''Art of the Thirties.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. *Kingsbury, Martha. ''George Tsutakawa.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. *"Pratt, Dudley" in Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. ''Who Was Who in American Art.'' Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1999, p. 2655. *"Studio of Dudley Pratt Meant for Hard Work." ''Seattle

Times'', January 19, 1936.

External links

* A 1945 photograph of Dudley Pratt by Ernst Kassowitz is availabl
here
* An article abou

includes a photograph of a grotesque on Smith Hall. * Several photographs of Pratt's work in Western Washington are available i
a photo collection on flickr
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