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HERMON ATKINS MACNEIL (1866– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMON ATKINS See also:MACNEIL (1866– )  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Chelsea, See also:Massachusetts . He was an instructor in See also:industrial See also:art at Cornell University in 1886–1889, and was then a See also:pupil of See also:Henri M . See also:Chapu and See also:Falguiere in See also:Paris . Returning to See also:America, he aided See also:Philip Martiny in the preparation of See also:sketch See also:models for the Columbian exposition, and in 1896 he won the Rinehart scholarship, passing four years (1896–1900) in See also:Rome . In 1906 he became a See also:National Academician . His first irnportant See also:work was " The Moqui Runner," which was followed by " A See also:Primitive See also:Chant," and " The See also:Sun See also:Vow," all figures of the See also:North-American See also:Indian . A " See also:Fountain of See also:Liberty," for the St See also:Louis exposition, and other Indian themes came later; his " Agnese and his " See also:Beatrice," two See also:fine busts of See also:women, also deserve mention . His See also:principal work is the See also:sculpture for a large memorial See also:arch, at See also:Columbus, See also:Ohio, in See also:honour of See also:President See also:McKinley . In 1909 he won in competition a See also:commission for a large soldiers' and sailors' See also:monument in See also:Albany, New See also:York . His wife, See also:Carol See also:Brooks See also:MacNeil, also a sculptor of distinction, was a pupil of F . W . See also:MacMonnies .

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