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Birth
1878 (San Francisco, California)
Death
1949 (New York City)
Lived/Active
California/New York / France
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classical figure and portrait sculpture
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New York Armory Show of 1913
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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Born in San Francisco, California, Robert Aitken became a noted sculptor who spent most of his career teaching at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He has done numerous portraits, full size and bust, of well known figures, and his work is in many collections and museums including the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
For his early study, he was a painting pupil of Arthur Mathews and Douglas Tilden at the Mark Hopkins Institute and by the time h (showing 500 of 1035 characters). |
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