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  • Sepia-tone photograph of Anna Hyatt Huntington. She is a white woman wearing a light-colored dress.

    Anna Hyatt Huntington was an artist who specialized in sculpting lifelike animals. She was one of the most commercially successful sculptors of her era.

  • Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park

    Frances Grimes

    • Locations: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
    Side view of woman in classically inspired costume including glimmering headband.

    Frances Grimes was a celebrated sculptor and valued assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

    • Locations: Lincoln Memorial, Minute Man National Historical Park, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
    black and white photo of sculptor

    This American sculptor molded popular understanding of American history and identity in a way few others in the arts have. He is best known for creating the Minute Man statue in Corcord, Massachusetts and marble statue of Abraham Lincoln within the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

  • George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

    Raoul Josset

    • Locations: George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
    A black and white photo of sculptor Raoul Josset.

    Raoul Josset, the sculptor of the columns on the Indiana side of the Memorial Bridge

  • George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

    Hermon MacNeil

    • Locations: George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
    A black and white photograph of a white man with a mustache and beard, neatly trimmed.

    Hermon Atkins MacNeil is the Sculptor of the bronze George Rogers Clark statue in the memorial rotunda.

  • George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

    Joseph Kiselewski

    • Locations: George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
    man with a pipe in his mouth holding a tool and sculpting a stone bas-relief

    Joseph Kiselewski, an American sculptor, created the bas-relief that sits above the door inside the George Rogers Clark memorial.

  • Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park

    Elsie Ward Hering

    • Locations: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
    Smiling woman in turtleneck, long unbuttoned coat, and beret standing in sculpture studio

    Elsie Ward Hering was a sculptor and studio assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens known for the finesse of her sculptural touch.

    • Locations: Boston African American National Historic Site, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
    Black and white photograph of Augustus Saint-Gaudens in his early thirties.

    His art shaped a distinctly American school of sculpture and, in turn, influence how Americans view their country, its past, and the United States’ place in the world.

  • Mount Rushmore National Memorial

    Gutzon Borglum

    • Locations: Mount Rushmore National Memorial
    Gutzon Borglum (right) and Lincoln Borglum observing work on Mount Rushmore from the tram car.

    Sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years of his life to memorializing four presidents that he believed were instrumental in the birth, growth, development and preservation of the United States.

  • Boston African American National Historic Site

    Edmonia Lewis

    • Locations: Boston African American National Historic Site
    Studio portrait of Edmonia Lewis seated and wearing a beret with a shawl over her top and long skirt

    As the first internationally recognized African American and Native American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis overcame several barriers to achieve international recognition and acclaim as an artist.

Last updated: August 2, 2023