Domingo Mora

Domingo Mora (1840–1911) was a Spanish-American sculptor and architectural sculptor.

Career

Born in

Metropolitan Opera House.^[1] He later settled in California.^[2]

He was a member of the

Bas-relief panels on facade,
Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway & 39th Street, New York City, J. Cleaveland Cady
, architect (1882–83, demolished 1967).

Reredos, All Saints Ashmont Episcopal Church, 209 Ashmont Street,
Dorchester, Massachusetts, Ralph Adams Cram, architect (1892–93).^[4]

Rotch reredos, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Boston, designed by Francis R. Allen, architect, 1904.
Pedimental sculptures, New York Criminal Courts Building, Center & White Streets, New York City, Thom & Wilson, architects (1892–94, demolished ca.1939).
16 lifesize allegorical figures, Great Hall,
Pemberton Square, Boston, Massachusetts, George Albert Clough, architect (1893–94).^[5]

Architectural ornament, capitals and friezes on the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts (1895).
Bas-relief panels on facade, Congregational House (now Congregational Library & Archives), 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects (1898).^[6]
Ceiling frieze of Music Room, J. P. Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue, New York City, McKim, Mead & White, architects (1907).
Architectural sculpture, Newhall Building, 260 California Street, San Francisco, California, Lewis P. Hobart, architect (1908–10).
Bas-relief panels on façade, Orpheum Theatre (now Palace Theatre), 620 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, California, G. Albert Lansburgh, architect (1911).^[7]

Metropolitan Opera House, New York City (1882–83, demolished 1967).
Pedimental sculptures, New York Criminal Courts Building, New York City (1894, demolished ca.1939).
Tremont Temple interior, Boston, Massachusetts (1895–96).
Terra-cotta entryway to the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, in Springfield, Massachusetts (1895).^[8]
Congregational Library & Archives, Boston, Massachusetts (1898).
"Law" bas-relief panel, Congregational Library & Archives, Boston, Massachusetts (1898).
"Troubador" bas-relief panel, Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, California (1911).

^ Opitz, Glenn B., ‘’Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers’’, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1988
^ Mitchell, Stephen, Jo Mora: Renaissance Man of the West. Stoecklein Publishing, Ketchum, Idaho, 1994, p.4
^ Kvaran & Lockley, A Guide to the Architectural Sculpture of the United States unpublished manuscript and website.
^ All Saints Ashmont. Archived January 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ The 16 caryatid figures are titled: Law, Temperance, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Punishment, Guilt, Equity, Right, Innocence, Reward, Wisdom, Religion, Virtue, Reason, and Legislation.
^ Congregational House Bas-reliefs from Boston Public Art.
^ Sandra A.B. Levis. "Broadway Historic Theater District: A walking tour sponsored by the Los Angeles Conservancy" (PDF). Los Angeles Conservancy.
^ A Souvenir of the Art Museum of the City Library Association. Springfield, Mass: Clark W. Bryan & Co. 1895.

Oswald Spier, "Domingo Mora—A Sculptor in Clay," The Brickbuilder, An Architectural Monthly (Boston: Rogers & Manson, February 1912), pp. 28–32.[1]