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An example of work by Gaetano Cecere
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Gaetano Cecere, a sculptor and lecturer, was born in New York City on
November 16, 1894. He was a
student at the National Academy of Design, and named a National Academician in 1938. He studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and attended the
American Academy in Rome, Italy on a scholarship from 1920 to 1923.
Memberhips in addition to the National Academy of Design included the
National Sculpture Society and the New York Architectural League.
EXHIBITIONS
National Academy of Design, 1924-1969
Art Institute of Chicago, 1924-1927
Pennsylvania Academy 1924-1958
National Sculpture Society 1924-1958
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934
Museum of Modern Art, 1935
Allied Artists of America, 1962-1964
Knickerbocker Artists 1962-1964
WORK/COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art
Numismatic Museum, NY
Norfolk, Virginai Museum
Reliefs: Federal Reserve Bank, Brookgreen Gardens, Norton Gallery, Victory War Memorial, NJ,
Monuments: Lincoln Memorial Bridge, State of Texas memorial to General, State of Montana to Explorer.
Lectured: Contemporary & Ecclesiastical Sculpture
"A great American artist, loved by many, died with his family Rose, Al and nephews in Old Greenwich, CT on June 10, 1985"
Source:
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A sculptor who studied with Herman Atkins MacNeil at the Beaux-Arts
Institute of Design, Gaetano Cecere was born in New York City. He
served in World War I in the U.S. Army and for heroism, not involving
combat, received the Soldier's Medal. In 1920, he received the
Prix de Rome and used that for the next three years to study at the
American Academy in Rome, where he met his future wife, painter Ada Rasario (Cecere).
Based in New York City after the War, he was Director of the Department
of Sculpture at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He later
lived in Princeton, New Jersey; Old Greenwich, Connecticut; and
did commissions in Galveston and San Augustine, Texas.
He died in a hospital in Stamford, Connecticut and is buried in the Bronx, New York.
Among his works are a statue of General Sidney Sherman in Galveston,
Texas; a statue of Senator James Pinckney Henderson in San Augustine,
Texas; and relief portraits in the chamber of the U.S. House of
Representatives including Alphonso X, King of Leon and Castile; and
George Mason, statesman from Virginia.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following, submitted June 2001, is from Elizabeth Terry:
Gaetano
Cecere was one of seven acclaimed sculptors chosen in the 1940's to
participate in redecorating parts of the U.S. Capital Building's House
of Representatives Chamber. Among other works for this project,
he created rondels of three great lawmakers of Western History,
including Alphonso X of Medieval Spain and Augustus.
Conservative
in style, classical and well-researched, he was a perfect fit for this
and other dignified, often 'official' commissions.
He also shared his talent and training with future artists as a
long-time professor, concurrent with his practicing years, at little
Mary Washington College, of the University of Virginia.
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