Furio Piccirilli
Furio Piccirilli | |
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Massa, Italy | |
| Died | January 17, 1949 (aged 80) |
| Education | Accademia di San Luca |
| Known for | sculpture |
| Relatives | Piccirilli Brothers |
Furio Piccirilli (March 27, 1868 [1]– January 17, 1949) was an Italian-born American sculptor and one of the Piccirilli Brothers.[2]
Piccirilli was born in
Massa, Italy into a family with a long tradition of carving and sculpting. Like his older brother Attilio he was educated at the Accademia di San Luca of Rome
. With his brother Attilio he immigrated to England in the mid-1880s and then moved to the United States in 1888. With their father and brothers he helped establish the Piccirilli Brothers carving business.
He was a well known and respected sculptor aside from being known in connection with his family firm.[3] He was "considered the most creative and the best modeler" of all the brothers.[4]
Piccirilli Brothers carved the architectural sculpture for the Parliament Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Furio modeled the four larger-than-life seated figures that flank the side entrances.[5]
Furio returned to Italy to get married in 1921, and then moved there permanently in 1926. He died in Rome in 1949.[6]
Selected works
- Five white marble portrait busts over Front Lobby doors, Daughters of the American Revolution Headquarters, Washington, D.C.[7]
- Bust of Ethan Allen (1911)[8]
- Bust of Isaac Shelby (1911)[9]
- Bust of John Adams (1911)[10]
- Bust of John Hancock (1911)[11]
- Bust of John Stark (1911)[12]
- Eurydice (1911), marble. Exhibited at 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (silver medal).[13]
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915
- Fountain of Spring
- Fountain of Summer
- Fountain of Autumn
- Fountain of Winter
- Facade and West Gate (1915), California State Building, San Diego, California[14]
- Seated figures flanking side entrances, Parliament Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba[16]
- Lord Selkirk
- Marquis of Dufferin
- General Wolfe
- Sieur de La Vérendrye (1920)[5]
- Seal (1927), Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.[18]
- Penguin (c.1936), National Academy of Design, Manhattan, New York City[19]
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Front Lobby (1911), DAR Headquarters, Washington, D.C. -
Eurydice (1911) -
Fountain of Spring (1915), Panama-Pacific International Exposition -
California State Building façade (1915), Balbo Park, San Diego, California -
West Gate, California State Building. The spandrel figures represented the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
Portia (1915), Martha Cook Building, University of Michigan -
Sieur de La Vérendrye (1920), Manitoba Government Building, Winnipeg -
Side entrance, Manitoba Government Building, Winnipeg -
Seal (1927), Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Penguin (c.1936), National Academy of Design
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References
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- ^ Archivio di Stato - Massa, Furio Piccirilli, atto di nascita (birth record) #171 recorded April 3, 1868
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988
- ^ Koffler, Jerry and Eleanor, Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, 2006 p. 7
- ^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC, 1968 p. 99.
- ^ a b Baker, Marilyn, Symbols in Stone: Manitoba’s Third Legislative Building: The Art and Politics of a Public Building, Hyperion Press Limited, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1986
- ^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture (Brookgreen Gardens, 1968), p. 101.
- ^ "Memorial Continental Hall," The American Monthly Magazine vol. 38, no. 4 (April 1911), p. 187.[1]
- ^ Ethan Allen, from SIRIS.
- ^ Isaac Shelby, from SIRIS.
- ^ John Adams, from SIRIS.
- ^ John Hancock, from SIRIS.
- ^ John Stark, from SIRIS/
- ^ Stella G. S. Perry, The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company Publishers, 1915), p. 157.[2]
- ^ California State Building Frontispiece, from SIRIS.
- ^ Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County, Independent Study, Eastern Michigan University, 1989
- ^ Thayer Tolles, ed., "Furio Piccirilli (1868–1949)", American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885. (MMA, 1999), pp. 512-514.
- ^ Seal (MMA), from SIRIS.
- ^ Seal (Brookgreen), from SIRIS.
- ^ Penguin, from SIRIS.
- Baker, Marilyn, Symbols in Stone: Manitoba’s Third Legislative Building: The Art and Politics of a Public Building, Hyperion Press Limited, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1986-
- Koffler, Jerry and Eleanor, Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, 2006
- Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County, Independent Study, Eastern Michigan University, 1989
- Lombardi, Josef Vincent, Piccirilli: Life of an American Sculptor, Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York. 1944
- Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988
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