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

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