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Leonard Volk

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Leonard Wells Volk (1828 - 1895) was active/lived in Illinois, Wisconsin.  Leonard Volk is known for Monument and portrait sculpture.

Leonard Wells Volk, sculptor, was born November 7, 1828 at Wellstown (now Wells, NY) to Garret and Elizabeth (Gesner) and died August 19, 1895 at Osceola, WI (on a summer visit).  At age 16, he began learning marble cutting from his father and elder brother in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After working several years in Bethany, Batavia and Buffalo, NY, he studied drawing and modeling in St. Louis.

On April 22, 1852 he married Emily Clarissa Barlow, daughter of Dr. Jonathan King Barlow.  They had four children-Adele, Arthur, Nora and Stephen A. Douglas Volk. They first settled in Galena, Illinois, then went to St. Louis and finally settled in Rock Island, Illinois where he worked at Volk's Rock Island Marble Works with his brother.

In September, 1855, he went to Europe with the financial help of Stephen A. Douglas (his wife's cousin), after taking Emily to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where she stayed with Abram and Matilda.  On his return from Europe in 1857,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2584 characters.]  Artist bio

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21 Book References for Leonard Volk
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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
1999 Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865 451 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 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 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
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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