biography of Adolph BLOCK (1906-1978)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Sculptor, instructor

Studied: With Edward McCartan; BAID; Fontainebleau, France; Hermon MacNeil; Sterling Calder; Edward Sanford.

Exhibited: BAID, 1927 (med.), 1927 (prize); Fontainebleau Alum. Assn., 1932, 1934, 1938; NAD; PAFA,1929-30, 1935, 1941-42; Arch. Lg.; NSS (Lindsay Morris Prize medals 1958, Herbert Adams Mem. Medal & Citation, 1961, silver med., 1967 & award for most notable serv., 1970); WMAA; NAC.

Member: Academician NAD; fel. Nat. Sculpture Soc. (rec. secy., 1953-1955, secy., 1956-1958, chmn. mem. comt., 1956-1962, first v. pres., 1959-1962, pres., 1963-1965); Allied Artists Am.; Fontainebleau Alumni Assn.; F., Tiffany Fnd., 1926.

Work: Bryant High Sch., NYC; Bayonne Pub. Libr., NJ; Queens Vocational High Sch., NYC; Beth-El Hosp., Brooklyn, NY; Garfield Restaurant, NY. Commissions: panels, Nat. Shrine Immaculate Conception, Wash., DC; bronze mem. portrait panel, Dr. Franz J. Kallmann, Columbia-Presby. Med. Ctr., NY, 1967; Washington Irving Medal, 1968 & Simon Newcomb Medal, 1970, New York Univ. Hall Fame Series; Nathan Hale Coin Medal, Nat. Commemorative Soc., 1969.

Comments: Preferred media: bronze. Positions: del. to Fine Arts Fedn., 1954-1960; dir., Fine Arts Fedn. New York, 1954-1962; Nat. Sculpture Soc. del., Int. Coun. Plastic Arts, 1958-1962; ed., Nat. Sculpture Rev., 1958-; instr. sculpture, NAD, 1959-; v. pres., Int. Coun. Plastic Arts, 1960-1963.

Sources: WW73; WW47