biography of Leslie Thomas POSEY (1900-?)

Birth place: Harshaw, WI

Addresses: Sarasota, FL

Profession: Sculptor, educator, architect, decorator

Studied: Wis. Sch. Fine & Appl. Arts, with Ferd. Koenig, 1919-23; PAFA, scholar, 1923, also with Albert Laessle; C. Grafly; AIC, 1924 & with Albin Polasek, 1929-30.

Exhibited: Milwaukee AI, 1923 (Wisconsin Sculptors & Painters, med, prize), 1930 (Lincoln Int.); Fla. Fed. A., 1940-44, 1945 (prize); Sarasota AA, 1940-46 (first prize, 1940); Ind. Arch. Assn., 1928 (med.); Am. Artists Exhib., AIC, 1930; Hoosier Salon, Marshall Field's Gal., Chicago, Ill, 1930 ( Katherine Barker Hickox, first prize); Fla. Int., Lake Land, 1950.

Member: Indianapolis Arch. Cl.; Hoosier Salon; Longboat Key Art Ctr.; Sarasota Art Assn. (dir., 1971-73).

Work: Walker Theater; Granada Theater; Brightwood Community Bldg., Indianapolis; Manatee Art League, Bradenton, Fla; Contemp. Arts Gal., Pinellas Park, Fla.; Longboat Key Art Ctr., Fla. Commissions: Beethoven (limestone), Dr. O. Seivert, Wildwood Park, Wis., 1933; decorative cast stone, Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota, Fla, 1952; garden figure in cast stone, Nat. Coun. Garden Clubs, Athens, Ga., 1954; Kellogg portrait (stone), Dept. Fire Control, Oneco, Fla., 1958; Terry portrait (bronze), Longboat Key Art Ctr., 1970.

Comments: Preferred media: stone. Positions: sculptor, Am. Terra-Cotta Co., Chicago, 1925-26; hd. sculpture & design, Indianapolis Terra-Cotta Co., Ind., 1926-29. Teaching: dir. sculpture, Posey Sch. Sculpture, 1937-; instr. sculpture, Manatee Art League, Bradenton, Fla., 1952-61; instr. sculpture, Longboat Key Art Ctr., 1961-71.

Sources: WW73; WW47.

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