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1819 Salem, Massachusetts - 1895 Vallombrosa, Italy. Known for: Classical figure and portrait sculpture, writing.
William Wetmore Story was a 19th-century sculptor known for idealized classical* subjects including Cleopatra, Lybian Sibyl and the Medea. He was the son of US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and... Read full biography
William Wetmore Story was a 19th-century sculptor known for idealized classical* subjects including Cleopatra, Lybian Sibyl and the Medea. He was the son of US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1819, and educated at Harvard University. He had begun a... Read full biography
William Wetmore Story was a 19th-century sculptor known for idealized classical* subjects including Cleopatra, Lybian Sibyl and the Medea. He was the son of US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1819, and educated at Harvard University. He had begun a successful career as a lawyer, writing several important books on the law when his father died in 1845. A memorial statue of the famous jurist was planned, and at the younger Story's request, the... Read full biography
William Wetmore Story was a 19th-century sculptor known for idealized classical* subjects including Cleopatra, Lybian Sibyl and the Medea. He was the son of US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1819, and educated at Harvard University. He had begun a successful career as a lawyer, writing several important books on the law when his father died in 1845. A memorial statue of the famous jurist was planned, and at the younger Story's request, the commission for it was granted to his son, although the younger Story was at best an amateur artist who continued to practice law after his father's death. He traveled to Italy to prepare himself for the endeavor and worked on the model in Rome in 1848-49. In... Read full biography
William Wetmore Story was a 19th-century sculptor known for idealized classical* subjects including Cleopatra, Lybian Sibyl and the Medea. He was the son of US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1819, and educated at Harvard University. He had begun a successful career as a lawyer, writing several important books on the law when his father died in 1845. A memorial statue of the famous jurist was planned, and at the younger Story's request, the commission for it was granted to his son, although the younger Story was at best an amateur artist who continued to practice law after his father's death. He traveled to Italy to prepare himself for the endeavor and worked on the model in Rome in 1848-49. In 1850, he returned to Boston and briefly practiced law, but decided to abandon that career to become a full-time... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAmerican Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
1999Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler451 pages (color)American Art History and Culture
1994Craven, Wayne687 pages (color)Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920
1992Jaffe, Irma B265 pages (color)The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Stebbins, Theodore E470 pages (color)American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick510 pages (color)The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century
1990Boime, Albert256 pagesThe Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Selected Works
1987Fine Arts Museum S Francisco173 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesNational Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985Smithsonian Institution461 pagesAmerican Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984Baigell, Mathew420 pagesSculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984Craven, Wayne782 pagesPre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984Harding, Jonathan P185 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesDictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982Soria, Regina332 pagesThe Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III325 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesArts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel730 pagesThe Fine Arts in America
1979Taylor, Joshua C264 pagesAmerican Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977Brown, Milton W631 pages (color)Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977Miles, Ellen G (editor)176 pages (color)200 Years of American Sculpture
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Armstrong, Tom336 pages (color)The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974Gerdts, William H224 pages (color)Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
1970Bolton, Theodore111 pages19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
1970
(Exhibition catalog)Howat, John K (others)220 pages (color)The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970Lynes, Russell514 pagesAmerican Art A Historical Survey
1966Green, Samuel M706 pagesYankee Stonecutters: The First American School of Sculpture, 1800-1850
1944Gardner, Albert T. E.0 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesArt and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927Fairman, Charles E0 pagesArt in America a Critical and Historical Sketch
1879Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele214 pages