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ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1862– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 420 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER PHIMISTER See also:PROCTOR (1862– )  , See also:American sculptor and painter, was See also:born in See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 27th of See also:September 1862 . As a youth he lived at See also:Denver, See also:Colorado, spending much of his See also:time in the Rocky Mountains, and his familiarity with the ways and habits of See also:wild animals was supplemented later by study in the Jardin See also:des Plantes, See also:Paris . He was a See also:pupil at the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design and later in the See also:Art Students' See also:League, in New See also:York, and first attracted See also:attention by his statues of wild animals at the Columbian Exposition, See also:Chicago . In 1896 he won the Rinehart Scholarship, which enabled him to spend five years in Paris, where he studied under Puech and J . A . Injalbert . Among his See also:works of See also:sculpture are: " See also:Indian See also:Warrior " (a small See also:bronze); " Panthers," Prospect See also:Park, See also:Brooklyn, New York; " See also:Quadriga," for See also:United States See also:Pavilion, Paris See also:Exhibition (1900), and See also:groups-in the See also:City Park, Denver, and Zoological Park, New York . His pictures of wild animals, mainly in See also:water See also:colours, are also characteristic . He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1895), of the National Academy of Design (1904), of the American Water Color Society, and of the Architectural League, New York .

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