Richard E. Brooks

Richard Edwin Brooks (1865–1919) was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, studied in Paris under the sculptor Jean-Paul Aubé (1837–1916). His early work Chant de la Vague (Song of the Wave) was idealistic; later works were more conventional statues.

Notable works

• Statue of Thomas Cass, in Boston (1899).
• Bust of Francis Amasa Walker in the Boston Central Library (1899).
• Statues for Maryland in the National Statuary Hall Collection (1903):
• Charles Carroll
• John Hanson
• Statue of William Henry Seward, in Seattle (1909) for the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition and moved to Volunteer Park in 1910.
• Statue of Robert Treat Paine (a Signer of the Declaration of Independence) in Taunton, Massachusetts (1904)
• Statue of John H. McGraw, in Seattle (1913).

Gallery

Honors

• Elected to National Sculpture Society (1897).
• Gold medal in sculpture at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition 1901.
• Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908.

Notes

References

External links

• The Points on the Park Sculpture Park
• The Monumental City Famous Monuments
• New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904

Pictures of the artist

Pictures of sculptures

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