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Chester Beach

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Chester Beach (1881 - 1956) was active/lived in New York, California / Italy.  Chester Beach is known for Allegorical and mythological figure sculpture, medallist-coins.

Chester Beach, born in 1881 in San Francisco, was an academic sculptor of the figure in both bronze and marble, and he also designed coins.  Characteristic works include The Glint of the Sea, a bronze of a nude young woman with arms raised; and the bronzes The Fountain of Waters, Sun Drawing the Waters, and Earth Receiving the Waters, in an outdoor setting at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Beach worked on Earth and Sun in Rome, Italy in 1929.

Beach exhibited his twenty-six inch high, The Unveiling of Dawn, at the historic 1913 Armory Show on Lexington Avenue in New York City.  A Rodinesque sculpture of a male nude embracing the amorphous form of dawn hazily emerging from the marble, it is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Beach studied in California at the California School of Mechanical Arts and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3238 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Chester Beach available:    Paul Howard Manship,  Edward Berge,  Augustus Saint-Gaudens,  Elie Nadelman,  William Zorach,  Frederick William MacMonnies,  Bessie Onahotema Potter (Keyes) Vonnoh,  Max Kalish,  Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington,  Malvina Cornell Hoffman,  Cyrus Dallin,  Guy Pene Du Bois,  Arthur Garfield Dove,  Harriet Whitney Frishmuth,  Max Weber,  Edwin Willard Deming,  Arthur Bowen Davies,  Chaim Gross,  Ben (Benjamin) Foster,  Lilla Cabot Perry,  George Benjamin Luks,  Maurice Sterne,  Louis Michel Eilshemius,  Walter Gay



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Chester Beach


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Direct Carver, Hand Carving
  • Medallic Art, Medallions, Medals, Coin Design
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Italy Before World War I
Art Association
  • American Numismatic Society
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • National Arts Club, New York
  • National Sculpture Society
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City
  • Society of Medalists
Art Teacher
  • Charles Raoul Verlet
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Beaux Arts Institute of Design, NYC, Teacher
  • California School of Design, Mark Hopkins Institute, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • Grand Central School of Art, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
  • Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy of Design
  • J. Sanford Saltus Prize/Medal, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Sculpture Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • MacBeth Gallery, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/InternationalExhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • National Arts Club
  • National Sculpture Society-
  • Society of Medalists-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
  • Armory Show 1913, New York

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