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Gilbert Franklin

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After his former professor Raemisch's death in 1955, Franklin completed Raemisch's 19 figure sculpture commission for public art in Philadelphia.
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Franklin served on the fine arts faculty at RISD between 1942 and 1985. Two of his bronze works are prominent on the RISD campus,
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Franklin was married to Joyce Gertrude (née Swirsky) and together they had one daughter, art historian Nina Franklin Berson.
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Franklin died at the age of 85 on October 19, 2004, in his home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
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Franklin's earliest coursework was at the Hawthorne School of Art (now the
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of the fine arts department at RISD. Additionally he taught at
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2004, solo, Picture Gallery, Cornish, New Hampshire
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Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Cape Cod School of Art
Museo Nacional de Arte
American Academy in Rome
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence
Rhode Island
Wellfleet
Massachusetts
Birmingham
England
Attleboro
Massachusetts
Cape Cod School of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
Museo Nacional de Arte
American Academy in Rome
Waldemar Raemisch
John Howard Benson
Dean
San Jose State University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Harvard University
Rome Prize
Boston Arts Festival
National Academician
Abraham Lincoln statue (1954)
Orpheus Ascending (1963)

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