
George Grey Barnard
George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris. He is especially noted for his heroic sized Struggle of the Two Natures in Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his twin sculpture groups at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, and his Lincoln statue in Cincinnati, Ohio. His major works are largely symbolical in character.[1] His personal collection of medieval architectural fragments became a core part of The Cloisters in New York City.
George Grey Barnard
(1863-05-24)May 24, 1863
April 24, 1938(1938-04-24) (aged 74)
Struggle of the Two Natures in Man
Pennsylvania State Capitol sculpture groups
Abraham Lincoln (Cincinnati)
The Boy (marble, 1885), private collection
Cain (1886, destroyed)
Brotherly Love (Two Friends)
Clark Art Institute
Struggle of the Two Natures in Man (marble, 1892–1894), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Maidenhood (Innocence) (1896), , Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina. Evelyn Nesbitt posed as the model.[13]
Brookgreen Gardens
Maiden with the Roses (Rose Maiden) (marble, 1898), Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine, Iowa
Urn of Life
(1899), Dodge Hall Quadrangle, Columbia University, New York City. Exhibited at 1900 Paris Exposition,[20] and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
The Great God Pan
Transportation – Henry Bradley Plant Fountain (1900), , Tampa, Florida
University of Tampa
The Hewer
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Architectural sculpture (1902–03), , 214 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City. Barnard's façade and roof garden sculptures were removed in 1937, and are unlocated.[23]
New Amsterdam Theatre
The Prodigal Son
2 pedimental sculpture groups: History; The Arts (1913–1917), , New York Public Library, Manhattan
Main Branch
Rising Woman
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln
Manchester, England
Head of Abraham Lincoln (marble, 1919), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Let There Be Light
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Adam and Eve Fountain (1923) , Pocantico Hills, New York.
Kykuit
The Refugee (Grief) (marble, by 1930), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Brotherly Love (1886–87), Langesund, Norway.
Transportation - Henry Bradley Plant Fountain (1900), Tampa, Florida.
Barnard at work on The Hewer (c.1902).
Solitude (Adam and Eve) (1906), Taft Museum of Art.
The Birth (1913).
Abraham Lincoln (1919), Manchester, England.
Let There Be Light (c.1922), Clermont, Kentucky.
Among Barnard's students were , Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Beatrice Ashley Chanler and Malvina Hoffman.[32]
Anna Hyatt Huntington
A collection of his Medieval architectural elements is at the .
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The George Grey Barnard Sculpture Garden was created in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (his birthplace) in 1978.
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Thaw, Alexander Blair (December 1902). . The World's Work: A History of Our Time. V: 2837–2853. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
"George Grey Barnard, Sculptor"
Harold E. Dickson, ed. George Grey Barnard: Centenary Exhibition, 1863–1963 (exh. cat. Pennsylvania State University, 1964).
Sara Dodge Kimbrough, Drawn from Life: The Story of Four American Artists Whose Friendship & Work Began in Paris During the 1880s, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976.
Susan Martis, "Famous and Forgotten: Rodin and Three Contemporaries," Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2004.
Frederick C. Moffatt, Errant Bronzes: George Grey Barnard's Statues of Abraham Lincoln, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.
"The George Grey Banard Collection," Philadelphia Museum Bulletin 40, no. 206 (1945): [49]–[64].
Robinson Galleries, The George Grey Barnard Collection, New York: The Galleries, 1941.
Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Archived 2019-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
George Grey Barnard Exhibit – Kankakee County Historical Society (scroll down)
George Grey Barnard Papers – Philadelphia Museum of Art
Centre County Historical Society
from the Cloisters Library and Archives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.