Born in New Hampshire and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont, Larkin Mead became a sculptor whose work is in Springfield Missouri at the Lincoln Memorial and the Oak Ridge Cemetery, and at the U.S.... Read full biography
Born in New Hampshire and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont, Larkin Mead became a sculptor whose work is in Springfield Missouri at the Lincoln Memorial and the Oak Ridge Cemetery, and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. ("Ethan Allen"). In 1853, he traveled to New York City, where he worked for two... Read full biography
Born in New Hampshire and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont, Larkin Mead became a sculptor whose work is in Springfield Missouri at the Lincoln Memorial and the Oak Ridge Cemetery, and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. ("Ethan Allen"). In 1853, he traveled to New York City, where he worked for two years in the studio of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown. For the first year of the Civil War, he was an artist for "Harper's Weekly", and in that capacity spent time with the army of the Potomac. From 1862... Read full biography
Born in New Hampshire and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont, Larkin Mead became a sculptor whose work is in Springfield Missouri at the Lincoln Memorial and the Oak Ridge Cemetery, and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. ("Ethan Allen"). In 1853, he traveled to New York City, where he worked for two years in the studio of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown. For the first year of the Civil War, he was an artist for "Harper's Weekly", and in that capacity spent time with the army of the Potomac. From 1862 to 1865, he lived in Italy with his brother-in-law, who was the United States consulate in Venice. There he met other American sculptors including Hiram Powers, Thomas Ball, and Joel Tanner Hart, and during this time, he created works from mythology... Read full biography
Born in New Hampshire and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont, Larkin Mead became a sculptor whose work is in Springfield Missouri at the Lincoln Memorial and the Oak Ridge Cemetery, and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. ("Ethan Allen"). In 1853, he traveled to New York City, where he worked for two years in the studio of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown. For the first year of the Civil War, he was an artist for "Harper's Weekly", and in that capacity spent time with the army of the Potomac. From 1862 to 1865, he lived in Italy with his brother-in-law, who was the United States consulate in Venice. There he met other American sculptors including Hiram Powers, Thomas Ball, and Joel Tanner Hart, and during this time, he created works from mythology and Civil War subjects. He brought a number of these sculptures to the United States when he returned briefly in 1865. Th... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (18)
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Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women
2008
Aronson, Julie; Essay by Janis Conner
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One