Richard E. Brooks (sculptor)

Richard Edwin Brooks (1865-1919) [Taft, [http://books.google.com/books?id=sD4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=%22richard+e+brooks%22+paris&source=web&ots=RzFxW91SHE&sig=VaJu4l-RQm7j-terTIGgmjv6ALs&hl=en pp 501-503] ] was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, studied in Paris under the sculptor Jean-Paul Aubé (1837-1916). His early work "Chant de la Vague" (Song of the Wave) was idealistic; later works were more conventional statues. [Taft, pp. 501]

Notable works

*Statue of Thomas Cass, in Boston (1899). [citation
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bsQ_zJv41sIC&dq=%22richard+e+brooks%22+bronze&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
title=Boston: a Guide Book
last=Bacon
first=Edwin Monroe
publisher=Ginn & Company
page= [http://books.google.com/books?id=bsQ_zJv41sIC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=%22richard+e+brooks%22+bronze&source=web&ots=fr6WQVNzk2&sig=Vc2gnt9yLgN-IRSxRsYqzvE0PR8&hl=en 77]
date=1903]
*Bust of Francis Amasa Walker in the Boston Public Library (1901). [citation
url=http://www-tech.mit.edu/V19/PDF/N11.pdf
contribution=The Bust of General Walker
title=The Tech
publisher=MIT
page=78
date=November 8, 1900
volume=20
number=6]
*Statues for Maryland in the National Statuary Hall Collection (1903):
**Charles Carroll [cite web
url=http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/carroll.cfm
title=Charles Carroll of Carrollton
publisher=Architect of the Capitol]
**John Hanson [cite web
url=http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/hanson.cfm
title=John Hanson
publisher=Architect of the Capitol]
*Statue of William Henry Seward, in Seattle (1909) for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and moved to Volunteer Park in 1910. [cite web
url=http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=8195
title=Statue of William H. Seward is unveiled at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition on September 10, 1909
last=Stein
first=Alan J.
date=June 26, 2007
publisher=HistoryLink.org]
*Statue of John H. McGraw, in Seattle (1913). [cite web
url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3435
title=McGraw, John H. (1850-1910)
last=Rochester
first=Junius
date=July 06, 2001
publisher=HistoryLink.org]

Honors

*Elected to National Sculpture Society (1897). [citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE3D61339E433A25757C2A9629C94669ED7CF
title=Art and Artists
last=Beatty
first=John W.
date=April 24, 1897
publisher=The New York Times
page=BR6]
*Gold medal in sculpture at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition 1901. [citation
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=iqsYAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22richard+e+brooks%22+paris&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
title=Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events
publisher=D. Appleton and Co.
date=1902
pages= [http://books.google.com/books?id=iqsYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=%22richard+e+brooks%22+paris&source=web&ots=Jr5IZnNL44&sig=AzBoFnSOPkbfVB2Cj_x-spoEOg4&hl=en 238-239] ]
*Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. [cite web
url=http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php
title=Deceased Members
publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters
accessdate=2008-05-22]

Notes

References

*citation
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sD4CAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22richard+e+brooks%22+paris&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
title=History of American Sculpture
last=Taft
first=Lorado
publisher=MacMillan
date=1903

External links

* [http://www.bpl.org/kids/publicartguide.pdf The Points on the Park Sculpture Park]
* [http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/historic/images/Monument%20list%202000.pdf The Monumental City Famous Monuments]
* [http://www.fullbooks.com/New-York-at-the-Louisiana-Purchase-Exposition4.html New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904]
*cite web
url=http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/131/html/senchamb.html
title=The New Senate Chamber
publisher=Maryland State Archives
date=April 13, 2006

Pictures of the artist

*citation
url=http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/warner&CISOPTR=202&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=
title=Richard E. Brooks - nd.
last=Warner
first=Arthur Churchill
id=WAR0354
date=about 1909
publisher=University of Washington Digital Collections
*citation
url=http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?trg=1&parent_id=460121&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=0&imgs=12&snum=&pNum=
title=Mr. Richard E. Brooks
id=1129763
publisher=NYPL Digital Gallery

Pictures of sculptures

*cite web
url=http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/american_paintings_and_sculpture/Song_of_the_Wave/viewObject.aspx?&OID=20010578&PgSz=1
title=Song of the Wave
date=1895, cast 1904
publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art
*cite web
url=http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/american_paintings_and_sculpture/The_Bather/viewObject.aspx?&OID=20010577&PgSz=1
title=The Bather
date=1895, cast 1904
publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art
*cite web
url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM20G
title=Colonel Thomas Cass Statue
publisher=Irish-American Historic Places
accessdate=2008-05-22
*cite web
url=http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/warner&CISOBOX1=1910
title=William Henry Seward monument in Seattle, n.d.
last=Warner
first=Arthur Churchill
publisher=University of Washington Digital Collections
*citation
url=http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/curtis&CISOPTR=43&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=&CISOMODE=bib
title=Statue of John H. McGraw, Seattle
last=Curtis
first=Asahel
publisher=University of Washington Digital Collections
id=CUR1051
*cite web
url=http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc1500/sc1545/e_catalog_2002/brooks.html
title=The Annapolis Complex Collection
publisher=Maryland State Archives
date=2002

Newspaper

*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C01E4D91431E733A25750C2A96F9C94689ED7CF
title=Statue of Col. Thomas Cass
last=
first=
date=September 23, 1899
publisher=The New York Times
page=1
*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C01E6DE1130E132A25754C0A96E9C946097D6CF
title=Art Awards at Buffalo
last=
first=
date=August 7, 1901
publisher=The New York Times
page=7
*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E2D6153FE433A25754C0A9649D946097D6CF
title=The Liverpool Exchange Fire
last=
first=
date=December 7, 1901
publisher=The New York Times
page=8
*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E7DF143EE233A25753C2A9659C946997D6CF
title=Exhibit by Five Sculptors
date=March 20, 1908
publisher=The New York Times
page=6
*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E5D61131E733A25752C0A9639C946897D6CF
title=Paris Salon Shows Many Americans
last=
first=
date=May 1, 1909
publisher=The New York Times
page=4
*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E3DC1131E233A2575BC0A96E9C946096D6CF
title=Col. Astor in Tennis Match
date=August 8, 1911
publisher=The New York Times
page=9
*citation
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F04E5DF133AE633A25752C1A9649C946396D6CF
title=American Art Show Wins Paris Praise
author=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph
date=February 11, 1912
publisher=The New York Times
page=C4