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Clark Mills

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Clark Mills (1815 - 1883) was active/lived in South Carolina, Louisiana, District Of Columbia.  Clark Mills is known for Portrait sculpture, ornamental plaster, life masks.

Clark Mills was an innovative mid 19th-century sculptor who was a modeler of life masks, an ornamental plasterer and sculptor of monumental bronzes. He is credited as the first successful American sculptor who did not study abroad, first American sculptor to cast his own bronzes, and creator of the first equestrian sculpture erected in the United States. His studios were located in Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington DC at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

Mills was born in 1815 in Onondaga County, New York. He ran away at the age of 13 and worked at various jobs in Syracuse and New Orleans before settling in Charleston. There Mills began his artistic career, creating plaster busts based upon life masks.

In 1848 Mills successfully entered a competition for the Andrew Jackson Memorial, which was installed in Lafayette Square in Washington DC on the north portico side of the White House. Five years later, this work, the above reference   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11897 characters.]  Artist bio

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33 Book References for Clark Mills
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Scriver, Mary Strachan Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver 368 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1983 Poesch, Jessie The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen 384 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Miles, Ellen G (editor) Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century 176 Yes
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1974 Goode, James M The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington DC 0 Yes
1973 McClanathan, Richard Art in America A Brief History 216 Yes
1970 Lynes, Russell The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America 514 No
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1944 Gardner, Albert T. E. Yankee Stonecutters: The First American School of Sculpture, 1800-1850 0 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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