biografia di John ANGEL (1882-1960)

Birth place: Newton Abbott, Devon, England

Addresses: Sandy Hook, CT

Profession: Sculptor, craftsperson, illustrator, lecturer

Studied: Albert Mem., Cheltenham; Royal Acad. Art Schools, London; George Frampton, Thomas Brock

Exhibited: Landseer Scholarship, Diplomas, two Silver Medals, Gold Medal and Traveling Scholarship, Royal Acad., London, 1911; sculpt. Royal Acad., London,1912-27; PAFA, 1938. Other awards: Hon. Litt. D. degree, Columbia Univ., 1936.

Member: ANA; NA; A. Workers Gld.; NSS; Arch. Lg.; Century Assn.; Medieval Acad. Am.; Royal Soc. British Sculptors; F., Royal Sch. Brit Soc.; Brit. S.

Work: In England: War Memorials at Exeter, Bridgewater, and Rotherham; busts, statues, panels, groups for churches in Oxford, Yorkshire; statues on Reredos Cheltenham Men's College; work at Albert Mem. Mus., Exeter. In Scotland: bronze, Inst. FA, Glasgow. In U.S.A.: sculpture: Cathedral of St. John the Divine and St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC. Panel: East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.; sculpture on Princeton Univ. Chapel, St. Paul's Sch., Concord, N.H. Statues: Alexander Hamilton, Lincoln Park, Chicago; Francis Vigo, Vincennes, Ind.; Stephen Austin, Austin, Tex.; William Marsh Rice, Houston, Tex.; at Phillip's Acad., Andover, Mass.; Yale Univ., New Haven; statues also in St. Louis, Mo.; Concord, N.H., and Braintree, Mass.; reredos statuary, St. John's Church, Youngstown, Ohio; statuary: Kirk in the Hills Church, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Wash., D.C.; various medals; four heroic size marble statues of the Evangelists, Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minn.

Comments: Lectures on sculpture at various universities and schools. Illustrator: article on cathedral sculpture in The Cathedral Age."

Sources: WW59; WW47."