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1828 Wellstown (now Wells) New York - 1895 Osceola, Wisconsin. Known for: Monument and portrait sculpture.
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Leonard Wells Volk, sculptor, was born November 7, 1828 at Wellstown (now Wells, NY) to Garret and Elizabeth (Gesner) and died August 19, 1895 at Osceola, WI (on a summer visit). At age 16, he began... Read full biography
Leonard Wells Volk, sculptor, was born November 7, 1828 at Wellstown (now Wells, NY) to Garret and Elizabeth (Gesner) and died August 19, 1895 at Osceola, WI (on a summer visit). At age 16, he began learning marble cutting from his father and elder brother in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After... Read full biography
Leonard Wells Volk, sculptor, was born November 7, 1828 at Wellstown (now Wells, NY) to Garret and Elizabeth (Gesner) and died August 19, 1895 at Osceola, WI (on a summer visit). At age 16, he began learning marble cutting from his father and elder brother in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After working several years in Bethany, Batavia and Buffalo, NY, he studied drawing and modeling in St. Louis. On April 22, 1852 he married Emily Clarissa Barlow, daughter of Dr. Jonathan King Barlow. They had... Read full biography
Leonard Wells Volk, sculptor, was born November 7, 1828 at Wellstown (now Wells, NY) to Garret and Elizabeth (Gesner) and died August 19, 1895 at Osceola, WI (on a summer visit). At age 16, he began learning marble cutting from his father and elder brother in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After working several years in Bethany, Batavia and Buffalo, NY, he studied drawing and modeling in St. Louis. On April 22, 1852 he married Emily Clarissa Barlow, daughter of Dr. Jonathan King Barlow. They had four children-Adele, Arthur, Nora and Stephen A. Douglas Volk. They first settled in Galena, Illinois, then went to St. Louis and finally settled in Rock Island, Illinois where he worked at Volk's Rock Island Marble Works with his brother. In... Read full biography
Leonard Wells Volk, sculptor, was born November 7, 1828 at Wellstown (now Wells, NY) to Garret and Elizabeth (Gesner) and died August 19, 1895 at Osceola, WI (on a summer visit). At age 16, he began learning marble cutting from his father and elder brother in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After working several years in Bethany, Batavia and Buffalo, NY, he studied drawing and modeling in St. Louis. On April 22, 1852 he married Emily Clarissa Barlow, daughter of Dr. Jonathan King Barlow. They had four children-Adele, Arthur, Nora and Stephen A. Douglas Volk. They first settled in Galena, Illinois, then went to St. Louis and finally settled in Rock Island, Illinois where he worked at Volk's Rock Island Marble Works with his brother. In September, 1855, he went to Europe with the financial help of Stephen A. Douglas (his wife's cousin), after taking Emily to Pittsfie... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Mask Portraits from Life or Death, Masques
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Abraham Lincoln
- •Commemorative, Memorial, Monument
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
