biography of Henry Kirke BUSH-BROWN (1857-1935)

Birth place: Ogdensburg, NY

Death place: Wash., DC

Addresses: Wash., DC, 1910

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: NAD with his uncle, Henry K. Brown; Paris and Florence, 1886-89; Académie Julian, Paris, 1886-88

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1887, 1888; PAFA, 1888, 1891-92, 1895, 1898, 1900, 1906, 1909, 1915; Chicago and Buffalo Expos. of 1893 and 1901; World's Columbian Expo., 1893; Boston AC, 1900; CGA; NAD, 1882-84; Soc. of Wash. Artists (first prize, 1927).

Member: NSS, 1893; NAC; New York Arch. Lg., 1892; Soc. Washington Artists (pres., 1928-29); Wash. AC (pres., 1916-20, 1922); AFA; Wash. Soc. Fine Arts; Cosmos Club; Landscape Club of Wash.

Work: Mus. New Mexico; Gettysburg, PA; Appellate Court, NYC; Stony Point, NY; Valley Forge, PA; Charleston, WV; Union League, Phila.; USPO, Wellsville, NY; MMA; Atlanta Mus.; NMAA and CGA (busts, bronzes, medals); U.S. Capitol (completed statue of Richard Stockton, started by his uncle and adoptive father, Henry Kirke Bush Brown); Wash. AC Coll.

Comments: Bush assumed his hyphenated name when his uncle Henry Kirke Brown died in 1886. His wife, Margaret L., and daughter, Lydia, were both artists (see entries). In 1923, Bush-Brown opened the first school of sculpture in Wash., DC.

Sources: WW33; P&H Samuels, 77-78; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 326.