Walker Hancock

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Walker Hancock, ca.1960

Walker Kirkland Hancock (born June 28, 1901 in St. Louis , Missouri , † December 30, 1998 in Gloucester , Massachusetts ) was an American sculptor .

He was known for his monumental sculptures , including Stone Mountain near Atlanta . In 1939, Hancock was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

At the end of the Second World War he worked for the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section in Europe. The activity of this unit is portrayed in the film Monuments Men, shot in 2014 . John Goodman played the Hancock role of Sergeant Walter Garfield .

In May 1945, Walker Hancock set up the first so-called Central Collecting Point in Marburg , which, among other things, housed the art treasures originally stored in an ore mine in Siegen . He used the modern building of the State Archives as a basis . In the following months, the CCP's holdings were documented there by the photo archive Foto Marburg , which is also located in Marburg .

In 1989 Hancock received the National Medal of Arts and in 1990 the Presidential Medal of Freedom . Since 1941 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hancock, Walker NA 1939 ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 25, 2015)
  2. ↑ The Art Detective: "There was absolutely nothing military about him" - Search for traces of Walker Hancock in Marburg (accessed on May 19, 2016)
  3. ^ Members: Walker Hancock. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 2, 2019 .

literature

  • Walker Hancock: Experiences of a Monuments Officer in Germany. In: College Art Journal 5, 1946, pp. 271-311.
  • The Sculpture of Walker Hancock. Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, MA 1989.
  • Walker Hancock: A Sculptor's Fortunes: A Memoir. Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, MA 1997.
  • Susan James-Gadzinski, Mary Mullen Cunningham: Walker Hancock. In: American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia 1997, pp. 279-285.
  • Marco Rasch: State Archives Art Collection. The Marburg Central Collecting Point. In: Archivnachrichten aus Hessen 17/1 , 2017, pp. 60–62.

Web links

Commons : Walker Kirtland Hancock  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
personal data
SURNAME Hancock, Walker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hancock, Walker Kirkland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1998
Place of death Gloucester