藝術家Bela Lyon PRATT (1867-1917) 生平簡歷

出生地： Norwich, CT

死亡地点： Boston, MA

地址： Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA/Bartlett"s Harbor, North Haven, ME

职业： Sculptor, medalist, teacher

教育： Yale School FA, with Niemeyer and J.F. Weir, 1884-88; ASL with Saint Gaudens, F.E. Elwell, W.M. Chase, K. Cox, 1888-90; Académie Julian, Paris with H. Chapu, 1880-82, 1891; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with A. Falguière, 1890-92 (won several medals and prizes at the …cole and finished first in his class)

展出： Paris Salon, 1892, 1897, 1898 (hon. men.); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (silver); PAFA Ann., 1902-13; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (gold); AIC, 1912-16; Pan.-Pac. Expo, 1915 (gold). Awards: Yale Univ. (hon. B.F.A., 1899); Harvard Univ. (hon. M.F.A., 1915)

会员： NSS 1899; ANA 1900; Arch. League, 1911; Guild Boston Artists, 1914 (founder); NIAL; CAFA; Tavern Club, Boston, 1894; The Country Cl., Brookline, MA, 1910

工作： BMFA; Harvard Univ.; Trinity Church, Boston; Boston Pub. Lib.; LOC; Yale Univ. AG; Portland MA; Johnson Mus. Art, Cornell Univ.; Houston MFA; U.S. Naval Acad.; State House, Boston; monument, Malden, MA; Andersonville, GA; St. Paul's School, Concord, NH; Brooklyn Inst. Mus.; New Bedford (MA) Free Pub. Lib. Architectural Sculpture: numerous decorations for LOC, including some for the Congressional Lib.( spandrel figures, entrance; bas-relief medallions for the pavillion)

评论： He returned from Paris in 1892, commissioned by Saint-Gaudens to produce two colossal groups for the World"s Columbian Expo in Chicago. In 1893, he was appointed sculpture professor at the BMFA Sch., a position he held for the rest of his life. He had many commissions for medals and medallions, and in 1908 produced the quarter and half-eagle Indian Head gold coins for the Roosevelt administration. 1909 was his most active year in medal work. The bulk of his 180 works, however, were portrait reliefs, portrait busts (such as the portrait bust of his good friend, Frank Benson), colossal groups, statues, and ideal figures, and monuments (such as his memorial to the "Titantic"). He was also known for his decorative architectural sculpture (for the Liberal Arts Bldg., Buffalo Expo. and for LOC).

来源： WW15; Cynthia P.K. Sam, "Bela Lyon Pratt: Medals, Medallions, and Coins" (conference paper, Am. Numismatic Soc., NY, 1988); Pratt Family Paper, Archives of Am. Art; Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 147-48 (w/repro.); Craven, Sculpture in America, 496-97; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 382; Falk, Exh. Record Series.