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Edmond Amateis

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finished in 1935. Main inscription reads "These have dared bear the torches of sacrifice and service. Their bodies return to dust but their work liveth evermore. Let us strive on to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all
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as his teachers. When he returned to the United States, he resumed his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute, combined with work in the studios of
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After his return to the United States he was commissioned with a number of important works of architectural sculpture, such as
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Amateis also designed many fountain and garden figures and also modeled numerous portrait busts and small bronzes.
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in Washington D.C. Edmond Amateis received his early education in Washington and took up the study of art at the
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a relief for the Kerckhoff Mausoleum, Los Angeles, and a memorial to William M. Davidson at Pittsburgh.
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a relief and spandrels for the Department of Labor and Interstate Commerce Building, Washington, D.C.
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In 1929 Summer won the Avery Prize given by the Architectural League, and in 1933, Circe the
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American Artists of Italian Heritage, 1776−1945, A Biographical Dictionary
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and John Clements Gregory. In 1921 Amateis won the fellowship of the
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The Quarterly Bulletin of the American Rhododendron Society
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From 1942 to 1944 he was the fifteenth president of the
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While in Europe, he spent four months in Paris at the
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Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York City) alumni
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Short biography from a Brookgreen Gardens brochure,
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building
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Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building
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Rome
Italy
Clermont, Florida
United States
American
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
Sculpture
Acacia Griffins
Rome
Clermont, Florida
Louis Amateis
George Washington University
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
New York City
World War I

Buffalo History Museum

Académie Julian
François Boucher
Paul Landowski
Henry Shrady
American Academy in Rome
National Sculpture Society
rhododendron
Baltimore
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building
Buffalo History Museum
Gannett Building
Rochester, New York

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