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Paul Wayland Bartlett (January 24, 1865 – September 20, 1925) was an American
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working in the Beaux-Arts tradition of heroic realism.


Life

Bartlett was born in
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, the son of
Truman Howe Bartlett Truman Howe Bartlett (1835–1922), also known as T. H. Bartlett, was an American sculptor, and father to sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett. Bartlett was born in Dorset, Vermont, studied under Robert Eberhard Launitz in New York City and subs ...
, an art critic and sculptor. At fifteen he began to study in
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under
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, modelling from animals in the Jardin des Plantes. He won a medal at the
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of 1887, and was elected as a member of the jury for the Paris ''Exposition Universelle'' of 1889 and again at the ''Exposition'' of 1900, each time sacrificing his own opportunities of receiving medals. He was twenty-nine when the Cross of a Chevalier of the
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was bestowed upon him. In 1903, he collaborated with the dean of American sculptors,
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, on the models for the pediment sculptures of the
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; the pediment figures were carved by the
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. Bartlett's masterwork was the House of Representatives pediment at the U.S. Capitol building, '' The Apotheosis of Democracy'', begun in 1908 and completed in 1916. Among his other principal works are ''Bohemian Bear Tamer,'' in the
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, New York; the equestrian statue of
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, in the Cours Albert 1er, Paris, presented to the
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by the schoolchildren of America; the powerful and virile bronzes ''Columbus and ''Michelangelo'' inside the
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; the ''Ghost Dancer'', in the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; the ''Dying Lion''; the equestrian statue of McClellan in Philadelphia; and a statue of
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in Boston, Massachusetts. His bronze
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s of reptiles, insects and fish, several of which are in the collection of the
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, are also remarkable. In 1895, he was named a Chevalier of the French
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. In 1916 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was also a member of the
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and the
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. In the mid-20th century, Bartlett’s step-daughter, Caroline Ogden-Jones Peter worked to ensure that examples of Bartlett’s sculpture were distributed to museums throughout the United States. Additional examples of his sculpture, including many plaster studies as well as his personal papers are found at
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, Caroline's former home with husband, Armistead Peter 3rd;The Washington Post, December 11, 1983 a historic house museum open to the public since 1988. A retrospective exhibition was held after his death, '' Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865—1925): sculptures'', Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1929. File:Warren RLS.JPG, ''Joseph Warren'',
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File:Sir William Blackstone by Paul Wayland Bartlett (1920) Control IAS DC000191.jpg, '' Sir William Blackstone'' in Washington, D.C. File:Statue of Robert Morris (by Paul Wayland Bartlett) Independence National Historical Park.jpg, '' Robert Morris'' in
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in
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(1957)


See also

* '' Eternal Light Flagstaff''


References

;Attribution *


External links


Paul Wayland Bartlett papers, 1887-1925
from the Smithsonian
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Suzanne Bartlett papers relating to Paul W. Bartlett, (ca. 1883-1950s)
from the Archives of American Art * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartlett, Paul Wayland 1865 births 1925 deaths American expatriates in France Artists from New Haven, Connecticut Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists 19th-century American sculptors 19th-century American male artists American male sculptors Sculptors from Connecticut Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters