biografía de Alexander Phimister PROCTOR (1862-1950)

Lugar de nacimiento: Bozanquit, Ontario

Lugar de defunción: Palo Alto, CA

Direcciones: Seattle, WA; Studios in NYC and the Hollywood Hills, CA

Profesión: Sculptor, painter, etcher

Estudios: NAD, 1887; ASL, 1887; assistant to Saint-Gaudens in Paris for one year; Académie Julian, Paris with Puech, 1894; Acad. Colarossi with Injalbert, 1895.

Exposiciones: NAD, 1889-90, 1895; Boston AC, 1890-1903; PAFA Ann., 1890-1912, 1920-23, 1930; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (med.); SNBA, 1896-98; Paris Expo, 1900 (gold); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (gold), (med.); Arch. Lg., 1911 (med.); Pan.-Pac. Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (gold); LACMA, 1924; AIC.

Asociaciones: Bohemian Cl.; ANA, 1901, NA, 1904; SAA, 1895; AWCS; Arch. Lg. 1899; NSS, 1893; NIAL; A. Aid Soc.; Century Assn.; NAC; Am. Soc. Animal P.& S.

Obra: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY; MMA; BM; Princeton; bridges, Wash., DC; CI; Univ. Oregon, Eugene; mon., Buffalo; statue, Portland, OR; State House, Salem House, OR; Portland, OR; Minot, ND; Civic Center, Denver; Lake George, NY; Kansas City; mem., Wichita, KS; Pendleton, OR; Dallas

Comentarios: He spent summers in the Northwest, hunting and making studies. Many of his monuments were recast in small sizes by Roman Bronze and Gorham Bronze. Specialty: Western animal sculpture. Fink gives birthplace as New York.

Fuentes: WW47; Hughes, Artists in California, 449; P&H Samuels, 384; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 380; Falk, Exh. Record Series.