Albert Stewart

Albert Stewart (April 9, 1900 – September 23, 1965) was an American sculptor born in Kensington, England. He arrived in America in 1908 and was orphaned shortly there after. Through the intervention of a wealthy benefactor, Edwin T. Bechtel, Stewart was allowed to pursue his art studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and the Art Students League, staples for young and impoverished sculptors of the day. Upon completing his studies, Bechtel helped him obtain some needed commissions.

During World War I, he went to Canada and joined the Royal Air Force. When he returned after the war, he worked as an assistant to both Frederick MacMonnies and Paul Manship.

During the 1930s he worked as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist. Throughout his career Stewart frequently was employed to create architectural sculptures. In 1939, he was appointed head of the sculpture program at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He moved to California and stayed there the rest of his life.

elected architectural sculpture

*Buffalo City Hall friezes, Buffalo, New York 1931
*Decorative panels, 333 Michigan Avenue Building, Chicago, Illinois 1931
*Frieze and Eagle, post office, Albany, New York 1933
*Municipal Auditorium reliefs, Kansas City, Missouri (for the WPA) 1934
*Pediment, Department of Labor Building, Washington D.C. 1934
*United States Customs Building, Washington, D.C. (for the WPA) 1935
*Panels & Eagle, United States Mint Building, San Francisco, California 1935
*Panels, the Nassau County Courthouse, Mineola, New York 1939
*Panels on Home Builder's Savings and Loan Association, Pomona, California 1946
*Animal figures in brick wall at Los Angeles County Fair Grounds at Pomona 1952
*Reliefs, Life Science Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 1953
*Figures, Los Angeles County Courthouse, Los Angeles, California 1956
*Reliefs, Scottish Rite Temple, Los Angeles, California 1960

Other works

*Baptistry doors, St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City 1931
*Elevator doors, Ramsey County Court House, St. Paul, Minnesota 1931
*Eagles for legs of Steinway & Sons piano given to the White House 1938
*Several works at Brookgreen Gardens, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

References

*Falk, Peter Hastings, Editor, "Who Was Who in American Art", Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985 ISBN 0932087000
*Goode, James M. "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C"., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1974 ISBN 0-87474-149-1
*Gurney, George, "Sculpture and the Federal Triangle", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1985 ISBN 0-87474-492-X
*Kvaran, Einar Einarsson. "American Architectural Sculpture", unpublished manuscript
*McClellen, Douglas at al, "Albert Stewart", Scripps College, Claremont, California 1966
*Opitz, Glenn B, Editor," Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers", Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, 2nd edition, ISBN 0-938290-04-5
*Pare, Richard, Editor, "Court House, a Photographic Document", Horizon Press, New York NY 1978, 0-8180-0030-9
*Proske, Beatrice Gilman, "Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture", Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968. No ISBN available.