George Brewster (sculptor)

Independent Man (1899-1900), atop Rhode Island State House.

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (dedicated 1920), Plymouth, Pennsylvania.

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.

Education

George Brewster studied at the Massachusetts State Normal Art School in Boston, and then spent three years in Paris as a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Among his teachers were Augustin Dumont and Antonin Mercie.^[1]

Selected works

• Victory (finial figure), architectural sculpture, Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1897-1902.
• Stephen Decatur, Dewey Triumphal Arch, New York City, 1899 (destroyed).
• Independent Man (finial figure), atop Rhode Island State House, Providence, Rhode Island, 1899-1900.
• Protection of the Flag, Village Green, Athens, Pennsylvania, 1902.
• Portrait medallions on exterior of Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904.
• Bas-relief portrait of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1904.
• Greek Drama and Greek State, statues on exterior of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, 1907-09.
• Equestrian statue of William Penn Hussey, New England Home for the Deaf, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1913.
• Patrick Walsh, Barrett Plaza, Augusta, Georgia, 1913.
• Alexander Hamilton - 1793, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1918.
• Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, dedicated in 1920.
• Thomas Redfield Proctor Monument, Roscoe Cankling Park, Utica, New York, 1921.
• Portrait bust of Robert E. Lee, Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx Community College, Bronx, New York City, 1923.

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