Charles Tefft
Washington D.C.
Charles (or Carl) Eugene Tefft (September 22, 1874 – September 20, 1951) was an American sculptor born in
Washington D.C. A second Tefft statue of Hamlin stands in Norumbega Mall (a public park) in downtown Bangor, Maine
.
He studied sculpture with Frederick Ruckstull at the Artist-Artisan Institute in New York City. He also taught there. He worked for a while as an apprentice to John Quincy Adams Ward.
He set up his own studio in
Tompkinsville, New York, and later in Guilford, Maine
.
As with many sculptors of his generation, Tefft produced
St. Louis, Missouri.[1]
Tefft was chosen as the director of sculpture at the
Philadelphia in 1926.[2]
He died in Presque Isle, Maine on September 20, 1951.[3]
Works
- Renaissance Art, St. Louis, Missouri, ca. 1904.
- Fountain of Life, Bronx, New York, 1905
- Luther Peirce Memorial, Bangor, Maine, 1926
- Washington D.C., 1935.[4]
- Hannibal Hamlin, Norumbega Mall (public park), Bangor, Maine
- One of the figures, or a study for one of the figures, from the Luther Peirce Memorial named River Driver was cast separately and placed in Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina in 1950[5]
- Victory, World War I memorial, Belleville, New Jersey, 1922[6]
References
- ^ McCue, George, Photographs by David Finn and Amy Binder, ‘’Sculpture City: St. Louis, Sculpture in the “Gateway to the West”’’, Hudson Hills Press, NY, and Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 1988 pp.62-64
- ^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC, 1968 p. 150
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988
- ^ Architect of the Capitol, Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol, United States Printing Office, Washington 1965 p. 210
- ^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC, 1968 p. 151
- ^ Bzdak, Meredith Arms and Douglas Peterson, photographs, Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999 p.11
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