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Robert A. Weinman, 1915-2003
Just got this from National Sculpture Society:
Robert Alexander Weinman, FNSS, 1915 - 2003 Distinguished sculptor Robert Alexander Weinman died on September 7 at=20 the age of 88. The cause was congestive heart failure. He died at his=20 home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mr. Weinman was born in New York City in 1915, and grew up surrounded by = sculpture, as his father was the well-known sculptor Adolph A. Weinman=20 (1870-1952). He attended the National Academy of Design and the Art=20 Students League as a young man, where he studied with several of this=20 country=92s finest sculptors, including Edward McCartan, Chester Beach,=20 Lee Lawrie and Paul Manship. He apprenticed with C. Paul Jennewein,=20 James Earle Fraser and Joseph Kiselewski, in addition to working in his=20 father=92s studio. Mr. Weinman enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and worked as a=20 photographer at several continental air bases. While he was occupied as=20 a photographer, he continued to sculpt wherever and whenever he could.=20 He created a bronze memorial to the army fliers, Morning Mission, which=20 now stands at the Tulsa Municipal Airport in Oklahoma. After his=20 discharge from the Air Corps in 1945, he married his fianc=E9e Jane=20 Morrison, and shared his father=92s studio in Forest Hills until opening = his own studio in New York City in 1948. He worked in the city for=20 nearly twenty-five years before moving his studio and family to Bedford, = New York, where he was a longtime resident until he and his wife retired = to North Carolina in 1998. His skill at relief modeling led to the creation of over 100=20 commissioned medals throughout his career, as well as numerous awards.=20 The Salvation Army and the Order of Elks both commissioned him to do=20 their centennial medals. He was chosen to create a medal depicting James = Madison for the U.S. Capitol Historical Society=92s Bicentennial of the=20 U.S. Constitution series, as well as a 3 foot diameter portrait of=20 Madison that hangs in the Library of Congress. Other medals of note by=20 Robert Weinman include the President=92s Medal for the American Institute= =20 of Architects, the Emerson Thoreau Award for the American Academy of=20 Arts and Sciences, and the Duke Scholarship Medal for Duke University.=20 The American Numismatic Society (ANS) awarded him the J. Sanford Saltus=20 Medal in 1965, in recognition of his outstanding medallic work, and=20 named him Sculptor of the Year in 1975. In addition to his medallic work, Robert Weinman created a substantial=20 body of sculptural works in the round and was awarded many architectural = commissions for sculpture. These include works such as the three tympana = for Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in Forest Hills, NY; a large=20 bas-relief on the fa=E7ade of the Brown Memorial Building at the=20 University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and a monumental carved granite=20 eagle for the Federal Building in Buffalo, New York. Mr. Weinman was elected as a professional member of the National=20 Sculpture Society in 1953, and advanced to Fellow in 1959. He served as=20 Secretary from 1962-1965, as Vice President from 1965=961968, and as=20 President from 1973=961976. In 1985 he received the Henry Hering Art and = Architecture Award from the National Sculpture Society for his work on=20 the James Madison Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Over the years he = served as a volunteer on numerous committees, including the Finance=20 Committee which he served on until 1995. He was elected as an Honorary=20 President in 1996. At the National Sculpture Society=92s awards dinner in May 1997, Robert=20 Weinman was presented with the Society=92s highest award, the Medal of=20 Honor. He was presented with a hand-lettered certificate which read=20 =93National Sculpture Society proudly presents its highest award, the=20 Medal of Honor, to Robert A. Weinman, with grateful appreciation and in=20 acknowledgment of his unfailing dedication to the National Sculpture=20 Society and the promotion of sculpture in America=94. --=20 Buzz Huse, MCSE+I, MCSE Iter Sine Fine (Journey Without End) "These opinions/comments are entirely my own and no one else's." |
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