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1817 Pompey, New York - 1904 Albany, New York. Known for: Cameo portrait, portrait painting.
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Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often romantic and melodramatic. He was born at Pompey, New York, and first worked as a carpenter and pattern maker, carving wood molds, and then took up cameo cutting. However, his eyesight suffered with the... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often romantic and melodramatic. He was born at Pompey, New York, and first worked as a carpenter and pattern maker, carving wood molds, and then took up cameo cutting. However, his eyesight suffered with the detail work, and instead he modeled portrait busts in clay, and then worked them in marble*. The detailed work was detrimental to his eyesight, however, and he turned to modeling portrait busts* in clay later to be put into marble. In 1849, Palmer... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often romantic and melodramatic. He was born at Pompey, New York, and first worked as a carpenter and pattern maker, carving wood molds, and then took up cameo cutting. However, his eyesight suffered with the detail work, and instead he modeled portrait busts in clay, and then worked them in marble*. The detailed work was detrimental to his eyesight, however, and he turned to modeling portrait busts* in clay later to be put into marble. In 1849, Palmer began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design* in New York City, and in 1856, had a one-man show at the Church of the... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Cameo Portrait, Cameo Cutting
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Portrait Bust Sculpture
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Sculpture Society
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •CRAYON Journal Artist, 19th Century
- •Yankee Stonecutter
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts