biography of Edmond Romulus AMATEIS (1897-1981)

Birth place: Rome, Italy

Addresses: Brewster, NY, 1947; Clermont, FL, 1973

Profession: Sculptor, educator, author, illustrator

Studied: Beaux-Arts Inst. Design; Académie Julian, Paris; fel., Am. Acad. Rome, 1921-24

Exhibited: Biennale Romana Int d'Arte, 1923; NAD; PMA; PAFA; MMA; NSS. Awards: Henry O'Avery Prize, Architectural League NY, 1929; James E. McClese Prize, PAFA, 1933.

Member: ANA, 1936; NA, 1942; NSS (pres, 1942-1944); NIAL; Century Assn.; A. Fellowship; Arch. Lg.

Work: Brookgreen Gardens, SC; Hall Am Artists, Columbia Univ. Commissions: War Horses, Baltimore War Memorial, 1927; William M. Davidson Mem., Pittsburgh; USPO, Ilion, N.Y.; pediment & metopes, Buffalo Hist. Soc., 1928; large relief, Kansas City Liberty War Memorial, 1933; relief & spandrels, Labor & Interstate Com Commerce Bldg (Wash., D.C.);1935; Wall of Fame, Ga. Warm Springs Foundation, 1952.

Comments: Preferred media: stone, bronze, acrylic, wood. Specialty: arch. sculpture, garden figures & portraits.Teaching: instr. sculpture, Sch. Am. Sculpture, 1927; instr. sculpture, Columbia Univ., 1928-1932; instr. sculpture, Bennett Sch., 1938-1940. Illus., Country Life, Town and Country, Pencil Points. Author: A Sculptor Speaks His Mind," Liturgical Arts (1943).

Sources: WW73; WW47; "Breving, A Sculptor with Plastic Vision" Int Studio, (1926); Ernest Watson, "Edmond Amateis," Am Artist (1940); D DeLue, "Edmond Amateis," Nat Sculpture Rev (1967)."