John Frazee
John Frazee (1790–1852) was an American sculptor and architect.[1][2][3] The Smithsonian has a collection of many of his sculptures as well as paintings of Frazee by other artists including Asher B. Durand, Henry Colton Shumway[4]
He was born in Rahway, New Jersey, who worked in the Neo-Classic tradition. He is known as being one of the first successful native born American sculptors and "the first American born sculptor to execute a bust in marble."[5] He is best known for his portrait busts, including of John Jay and Marquis De Lafayette. He carved sculptures for the Boston Athenaeum including of Chief Justice John Marshalland Daniel Webster.[6] He also received a commission to design the New York Customs House, later used as Federal Hall National Memorial.[6]
The sculptor Thomas Crawford began his career as a marble carver in Frazee's studio in New York City.[7]
Selected works
- 1839, Monument to Thomas Paine in New Rochelle, New York, (The bronze bust of Paine by sculptor Wilson MacDonald was added in 1899)[8]
- Elbridge Gerry Monument
- Joseph Story sculpture
- Nathaniel Prime bust
- William Leggett portrait on tombstone
- Self portrait sculpture
- Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764-1854) bust
- Thomas Paine memorial with bust
- John Lowell sculpture
- John Marshall sculpture
- John Jay sculpture
- John Wells (1770-1823) First sculpture portrait by a native born American sculptor[9]
- George Griswold III (1777-1859) bust
- William Prescott sculpture
- Matthias Bruen marble sculpture
- Daniel Webster marble sculpture
- Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) marble sculpture
- Luman Reed sculpture
- Andrew Jackson sculpture
- Joseph Story marble sculpture
- Judge William Prescott marble sculpture
- John Henry Hobart (1775-1830) plaster sculpture
- William Wetmore Story (1819 - 1895) marble sculpture
- Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764 - 1854) marble sculpture
- Monument to Charlotte Canda (1828-1845)
- Robert R. Randall sculpture
References
- ^ John Frazee papers
- ^ John Frazee National Academy
- ^ [1]
- ^ John Frazee Smithsonian Collections
- ^ James-Gadzinski, Susan and Mary Mullen Cunningham, ‘’American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’’, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1997 p. 20
- ^ a b http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!211098!0#focus
- ^ Crane, Sylvia E., ‘’White Silence: Greenough, Powers and Crawfoed, American Sculptors in Nineteenth Century Italy’’, University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, 1972 p. 279
- ^ Voss, Frederick S., ‘’John Frazee: 1790-1852, Sculptor’’, the Boston athenaeum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington City and Boston, 1986 p. 104
- ^ Voss, Frederick S., ‘’John Frazee: 1790-1852, Sculptor’’, the Boston athenaeum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington City and Boston, 1986 p. 29
Further reading
- From artisan to artist : John Frazee and the politics of culture in antebellum America by Linda Hyman 1983
- John Frazee, American sculptor by Henry B. Caldwell 115 leaves, 20 leaves of plates : ill 1983, 1951 Call number:N40.1.F845 C14 1983a