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from Auction House Records.
Henry Watterson, 1926
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| A sculptor, Amory Simons was born in Charleston, South Carolina on April 5, 1866. Simons began art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and continued in Paris under Dampt, Puech, and Rodin.
He was active in New York before moving to Hollywood, California in the late 1920s. By 1940 he had settled in Santa Barbara where he taught at the School of Arts. He died there on July 24, 1959.
He is best known for his bronze horses.
Membership:
American Federation of Arts
Paris American Art Association
National Sculpture Society
Exhibitions:
Paris Expo, 1900, 1906
Pan-American Expo, Buffalo, 1901
Louisiana Purchase Expo (St Louis), 1904 (silver medal)
Panama Pacific Exposition, 1915
National Academy of Design, 1922 (prize)
California Palace of the Legion of Honor,1929
Olympiad, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1932
100 Years of California Sculpture;
References:
American Art Annual, 1905-33;
Who's Who in American Art, 1947-53;
Society of California Artists
| Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Amory Simons is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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