 Hezekiah Auger is primarily known as Hezekiah Augur
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| One of America's first professional sculptors, Hezekiah Augur was a
native of New Haven, Connecticut where he turned from a mercantile
profession to wood carving* and later to marble*. His best known
work is Jephthah and His Daughter, a melodramatic rendering in
1830 for Yale University. He also invented a machine that made
piano legs when working as an ornamental wood carver.
To learn
marble carving, he took some training with Samuel F.B. Morse, who was
basically a painter, and also relied upon his own sculpting experience
with wood. In 1827, Augur did a posthumous bust of professor
Alexander Fisher of Yale University and also a bust for the Supreme
Court of Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice.
Augur's style was
Neoclassical*--sweeping, flat planes of drapery with sharp edges,
revealing his training as a wood cutter, and 'covering' the fact that
he was untrained in anatomical modeling.
Sources:
Matthew Baigell, "Dictionary of American Art"
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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