Haig Patigian

Haig Patigian

Haig Patigian was an Armenian-American sculptor born on January 22, 1876 in the city of Van, Armenia and died on September 19, 1950 in San Francisco, California. His parents were teachers at the American Mission School in Armenia. He was largely self-taught as a sculptor.

Patigian spent most of his career in San Francisco, California and most of his works are located in California. The Oakland Museum in Oakland, California, includes a large number of his works in its collection.

elected public works

*McKinley statue in Arcata, California, 1906
*General John Pershing, San Francisco, California, 1921
*Abraham Lincoln, San Francisco, California, 1928
*Thomas Starr King, National Statuary Hall Collection, United States Capitol, Washington D.C.,
*"Volunteer Firemen Memorial", San francisco, California, 1933

Architectural sculpture

*M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, tympanum,
*San Francisco Savings Union Bank building, pediment, San Francisco, California, 1911
*Palace of Fine Art & the Machinery Palace, (now destroyed) Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915
*Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, (now the Ritz Carlton Hotel) pediment, San Francisco, California, 1920
*"Navigation, Aviation", and "Industry", Richfield Tower, Los Angeles, California Allegorical figures, 1928:when the building was demolished in 1968 the figures were moved to in front of the Student Health Services Building at the University of California in Santa Barbara
*Department of Commerce Building, pediment, Washington D.C., 1934

References

*Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
*National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture 1929, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY 1929
*Opitz, Glenn B , Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
*Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968


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