John Gregory (sculptor)
{{Short description|American sculptor (1879–1958)}}
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John Clements Gregory (May 17, 1879, London, England – 1958) was an American sculptor.{{cite web|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=6464|title=John Gregory by Anthony de Francisci / American Art|publisher=}}
Life
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When he was about 12 years old his family immigrated to the United States where he began his sculptural studies at the Art Students League in New York City. He continued these at both the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the American Academy in Rome. At various times he studied with J. Massey Rhind, George Grey Barnard, Hermon MacNeil, Gutzon Borglum, Herbert Adams, and Antonin Mercié.Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988 He became a United States citizen in 1912 and during the First World War served in the camouflage section of the U.S. Navy.Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC, 1968 p. 302
He was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927,‘’Exhibition of Models for a Monument to the Pioneer Woman’’ at the Chicago Architectural Exhibition, East Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago, June 25 to August 1, 1927 which he failed to win. In 1927 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1934.
In 1932 Gregory produced 9 marble bas reliefs for Paul Cret's Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Each panel depicted a scene from a different play by Shakespeare.Goode, James M. ‘’The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C.: A Comprehensive Historical Guide’’, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1974
p, 81
File:Gregory caesar.jpg| Julius Caesar
File:Gregory Hamlet.jpg| Hamlet
File:Gregory Lear.jpg| King Lear
File:Gregory Richard III.jpg| Richard III
In 1937, he completed a gilded bronze equestrian statue of Anthony Wayne for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.{{cite web|url=http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0006554.htm|title=WAYNE, Anthony: Statue at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by John Gregory|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMAM47_Anthony_Wayne_Philadelphia_PA|title=Anthony Wayne - Philadelphia, PA - U.S. Revolutionary War Memorials on Waymarking.com|publisher=}}
Gregory is well known for his architectural sculpture.{{cite web |url=http://www.archsculptbooks.com/home.htm |title=Archived copy |website=www.archsculptbooks.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130173805/http://www.archsculptbooks.com/home.htm |archive-date=30 November 2007 |url-status=dead}} Examples include bas relief panels on the structure and sarcophagus of the Huntington Mausoleum by architect John Russell Pope at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California;Bedford, Steven McLeod. "John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire," new York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1998, p. 210. and the larger-than-life panels, Columbia and Urban Life, on either side of the steps in John Marshall Park, Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C.[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14157117R37SJ.3317&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!17037~!10&ri=1&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=columbia&index=.GW&uindex=&oper=&term=gregory,+john&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=1 Urban Life], from SIRIS.
Gregory was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Federation of Arts, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.
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External links
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Category:American architectural sculptors
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