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Raymond Phillips Sanderson

Raymond Phillips Sanderson (Born 1908) was active/lived in Arizona, Missouri.  Raymond Sanderson is known for Sculpture-industry figure, mural.

Born at Bowling Green, Missouri, Raymond Phillips Sanderson spent the major part of his art career in Arizona where he was known for wood and bronze sculpture and mural painting.

Among places holding his work are the Valley National Banks, the Symphony Hall in Tempe, and the War Memorial at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  Leaving Chicago in 1932, he lived first in Bisbee and later became a resident of Scottsdale.  In 1973, a retrospective of his work was held at the Arizona State Art Museum.

He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kansas City Art Institute.  In 1935, as a WPA artist, he completed a life-size figure sculpture titled The Arizona Miner, (also known as Copper Man) which was placed near the Cochise County Courthouse in Bisbee.  He had little money to complete the work in bronze, so he molded it with cement and sprayed it with molten copper, a process of the Phelps Dodge Corporation whose copper mines were in Bisbee.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6908 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Raymond Phillips Sanderson


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
  • Bronze
  • Fresco Painting, Murals
Art Subject
  • Commemorative, Memorial, Monument
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Industrial Scenes, Factories, Labor Genre and Figure
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portrait Life Size and/or Portrait Bust Sculpture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
Art School
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Walter Bimson Western Art Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Public Art: Mural, Sculptures, Painting, Architecture in Public Places
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago

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