John Frazee (sculptor)
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John Frazee (1790–1852) American sculptor, born in Rahway, New Jersey, who worked in the Neo-Classic tradition. He is known as being one of the first successful native born American sculptors and "the first American born sculptor to execute a bust in marble.".[1] He is best known for his portrait busts.
The sculptor Thomas Crawford began his career as a marble carver in Frazee's studio in New York City.[2]
Selected works [edit]
- Monument to Thomas Paine in New Rochelle, New York, 1839
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- The bronze bust of Paine by sculptor Wilson MacDonald was added in 1899.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ James-Gadzinski, Susan and Mary Mullen Cunningham, ‘’American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’’, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1997 p. 20
- ^ Crane, Sylvia E., ‘’White Silence: Greenough, Powers and Crawfoed, American Sculptors in Nineteenth Century Italy’’, University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, 1972 p. 279
- ^ Voss, Frederick S., ‘’John Frazee: 1790-1852, Sculptor’’, the Boston athenaeum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington City and Boston, 1986 p. 104
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