biography of John Barney WEAVER (1920-2012)

Birth place: Anaconda, MT

Addresses: Edmonton, Alberta

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: AIC, Albert Kuppenheimer scholarship, 1941, diploma; also monumental sculpture with Albin Polasek.

Exhibited: Chicago & Vicinity, AIC, 1947; 1st Exhib. Old Northwest Territory, Springfield, IL, 1947; Denver Art Mus. 54th Ann., 1948; Wiss. P&S, Milwaukee Art Inst., 1951; 68th Exhib. Soc. Wash. Artists, Natural Hist. Bldg., Wash., DC, 1961; Montana Gallery & Book Shop, Helena, MT, 1970s.

Member: NSS

Work: Bronzes, Charles Russell, Statuary Hall, Wash., DC, Adm. Nimitz, Annapolis Naval Acad. Mus. & Trophies For The Brave, Canton Art Inst.; Miss Indian America, Montana State Hist. Soc., Helena; heads & figures, Anthrop Hall, Smithsonian Inst. Commissions: cast stone, War Memorial, Butte, Mont., 1944; three Indians, Nat. Geog. Soc., Wash., DC, 1963; bronzes, The Stake, Prove Mus. & Arch., Alta, 1967 & Chief Red Crow, Blood Tribal Council, Cardston, Alta, 1969; Archaic Indian, Grandfather Mountain Mus., NC, 1965.

Comments: Preferred media: bronze. Positions: sculptor, Montana Hist. Soc., 1955-60; sculptor, Smithsonian Inst., 1961-66. Teaching: instructor, life drawing, Layton School Art, Milwaukee, 1946-51.

Sources: WW73; R.T. Taylor, Jack Weaver--Sculptor (Montana Inst. Arts, 1955); Ruth Bowen, Alberta Art in Bronze," My Golden West (1970); B. Schwartz, "Talented Hands," CBC TV, Edmonton, Alta, 1970."