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Edmond Thomas Quinn (1868 in
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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– September 1929 in
New York City
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) was an American sculptor and painter. He is best known for his bronze statue of ''Edwin Booth as Hamlet'', which stands at the center of
Gramercy Park
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T ...
in New York City. His larger-than-lifesize bronze bust of
Victor Herbert
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stands near The Pond in
Central Park
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, New York City.
Education
![Edmund Quinn Fencing MET DP228731](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Edmund_Quinn_Fencing_MET_DP228731.jpg)
He studied painting at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
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under
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
For the length ...
. Following Eakins's February 1886 forced-resignation from PAFA, Quinn followed him to the
Art Students League of Philadelphia, and later became that short-lived school's curator. In Paris he trained for a time as a sculptor in the studio of
Jean Antoine Injalbert
Jean-Antoine Injalbert (1845–1933) was a much-decorated French sculptor, born in Béziers.
Life
The son of a stonemason, Injalbert was a pupil of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1874. At the Exposition Uni ...
.
Career
He exhibited regularly at the
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...
, showing paintings in 1891, 1893, 1905, 1906 and 1907. He first showed his sculpture there in 1908, and annually for many years, usually portrait busts. He won a silver medal for his bronze sculpture of model
Audrey Munson
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at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. He also exhibited at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
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(paintings: 1891, 1894, 1897; sculptures: 1899, 1901, 1905–06, 1908–10, 1914–16, 1921, 1923, 1925–26, 1928, posthumously 1930), and the
Art Institute of Chicago
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.
He was elected an Associate of the
National Academy of Design
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in 1920, and was a member of the
National Sculpture Society
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, the
Century Association
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, the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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, and the
Players Club, for whom he executed his statue of Booth.
Quinn was recognized as being a fine portraitist whose work "shows taste and conscience." His portrait busts include
Franklin Hooper
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Life and work
He was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of William Hooper and Elvira Pulsifer Hopper, ...
,
Sylvester Malone,
Edwin Markham
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Life
Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; ...
,
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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,
Padraic Colum
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Early life
Col ...
and
Eugene O'Neill
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. His half-length, oil-on-canvas portrait of
Attilio Piccirilli, the sculptor whose studio executed many works of American
Beaux-Arts masters, is in the
National Academy of Design
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, as are his painted portraits of
Furio Piccirilli and
Sherry E. Fry.
The
National Portrait Gallery has a large number of his portrait busts. __NOTOC__
Death
Quinn was found drowned off
Governors Island
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, New York City in September 1929, a suicide. Quinn had tried to kill himself four months earlier by drinking poison.
Quinn's papers are at
Yale University
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.
Selected works
Paintings
* ''Clown'' (oil on canvas, 1895),
La Salle University
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Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* ''Portrait of Attilio Piccirilli'' (oil on canvas, 1911),
National Academy of Design
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, New York City.
* ''Portrait of Sherry E. Fry'' (oil on canvas, 1915),
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...
, New York City.
* ''Portrait of Furio Piccirilli'' (oil on canvas, 1919),
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...
, New York City.
Sculptures
* ''Harry Wright Monument'',
West Laurel Hill Cemetery
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, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania (1897).
Harry Wright
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, a member of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
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, was a player and manager whose last position was as manager of the Philadelphia team in the National League..
* ''William Howard (Portrait of a Seated Man)'', Howard Memorial Cathedral (Masonic), Williamsport, Pennsylvania (1905).
* ''Bust of Edgar Allan Poe'',
Poe Cottage
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, Bronx, New York (1908).
* ''Zoroaster (Persian Religion and Philosophy)'',
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
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, Brooklyn, New York (1909–10). This architectural sculpture is approximately 12 feet (3.65 m) tall.
* Architectural sculpture,
Pittsburgh Athletic Association
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Located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1911),
Benno Janssen
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Childhood, education and career
Benno Janssen was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Oscar Janssen and Thekla Susenbeth. Janssen studied at the University of ...
, architect.
* ''Figure of a Nymph'',
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York City (1912).
* ''Relief bust of J. Edward Swanstrom'', Columbus Park, Brooklyn, New York (1912).
* ''Edwin Booth as Hamlet'',
Gramercy Park
Gramercy ParkSometimes misspelled as Grammercy () is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park and the surrounding neighborhood that is referred to also as Gramercy, in the New York City borough of Manhattan in New York, United States.
T ...
, New York City (1918). Commissioned by the
Players Club, whose clubhouse had been Booth's house.
* ''Bust of Professor Franklin W. Hooper'',
Brooklyn Museum
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, Brooklyn, New York (1920).
* ''Bust of Eugene O'Neill'',
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (1922).
* ''Bust of Leon Kroll'',
Whitney Museum of Art
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, New York City (1924).
* ''Bust of Victor Herbert'',
Central Park
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, New York City (1927).
* ''Bust of James McNeill Whistler'' (1928).
* ''Bust of Dr. J. Marion Sims'',
South Carolina Statehouse
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, Columbia, South Carolina (1929), Harold Sterner, architect.
* ''Henry Clay'',
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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, Washington, DC (1929–30). Completed by Francis Herman Packer.
* ''Bust of Frederick Dana Marsh'',
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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, Troy, New York, (year).
War memorials
* Bas reliefs for Battle Monument,
Kings Mountain National Military Park
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, South Carolina (1908).
* ''Bust of General Winfield S. Featherston'',
Vicksburg National Military Park
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, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1915).
* ''General John C. Pemberton Monument'',
Vicksburg National Military Park
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, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1917).
* ''Victory'', World War I Memorial, Faneuil Park, New Rochelle, New York (1921), Louis R. Metcalfe, architect.
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
* ''Bust of Edwin Booth'' (1926),
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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, Bronx, New York.
* ''Bust of
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'' (1926),
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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, Bronx, New York.
* ''Bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes'' (1929),
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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, Bronx, New York.
* ''Bust of John Quincy Adams'' (1930, posthumously unveiled),
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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, Bronx, New York.
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File:WLHC Fall 07008.jpg, ''Harry Wright Monument'' (1897), West Laurel Hill Cemetery
West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1869, is 200 acres in size and contains the burials of many notable people. It is affiliated with Laurel Hill Cemetery in neighboring Ph ...
, Bala Cynwydd, Pennsylvania.
File:Kings Mountain National Military Park - South Carolina (8558911902) (2).jpg, Bas reliefs (1908), King's Mountain Battle Monument, South Carolina.
File:PittsburghAthleticAssociation.jpg, Pittsburgh Athletic Association
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Located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard ...
(1911), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
File:New Rochelle WWI Memorial American Architect Feb. 15, 1922 p.129.jpg, ''Victory'' (1921), World War I Memorial, New Rochelle, New York.
File:Edwin Booth HoF jeh.jpg, ''Edwin Booth'' (1926), Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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, Bronx, New York City.
File:Central Park NYC - Victor Herbert statue by Edmund Thomas Quinn - IMG 5718 crop.JPG, ''Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is be ...
'' (1927), Central Park
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, New York City.
File:J. Marion Sims statue in Columbia, SC IMG 4780.JPG, ''Dr. J. Marion Sims'' (1929), Columbia, South Carolina.
References
Sources
*Dearinger, David Bernard. ''Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design'' 2004:455.
Notes
External links
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