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.
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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