biography of John FLANAGAN (1865-1952)

Birth place: Newark, NJ

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Paris, France, 1899; NYC, from 1906

Profession: Sculptor, medalist

Studied: A. St. Gaudens; Académie Julian, Paris with Chapu; also with Falguière in Paris.

Exhibited: Paris Salon 1892-93, 1896, 1898-99; PAFA, 1899, 1904-14, 1926; NAD, 1932 (gold); Paris Expo, 1900 (medal); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medal); AIC; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (medal); Am. Numismatic Soc., 1921 (medal); All. AA, 1936 (prize); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal); WMAA.

Member: NIAL; NSS; Am. Numismatic Soc.; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1927, Officer, 1934.

Work: MusÈe du Jeu de Paume, Paris; MMA; Newark Mus.; CAM; CI; LOC; statue, Albany, NY; mem., Dept. Agriculture, Wash., DC; Free Pub. Lib., Newark; mem., Aetna Life Insurance Bldg., Hartford, CT; ASL; war medal, town of Marion, MA; medal, Garden Club Am.; Medaille de Verdun' (voted by Congress and presented by the Pres. of the U.S. to the City of Verdun); Mus. Ghent, Belgium; Am. Numismatic Soc., NY; AIC. "

Comments: [Not to be confused with the sculptor John B. Flannagan.]

Sources: WW47; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 343; Falk, Exh. Record Series.