Книга: Henry Bacon «Poetry And Prose»
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Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon (
Education and early career
Henry Bacon was born in Watseka, Illinois to father civil engineer Henry Bacon and mother Elizabeth Kelton Bacon, both of Massachusetts. Bacon was largely raised in Wilmington, N.C., where his father settled down and served as a government engineer in charge of the Cape Fear River improvements. At age 15, Henry Bacon was sent north to Boston's Chauncey Hall School. In 1884 he matriculated at the
While at
In 1897, Bacon left the office of
Mature work
; Chelsea Savings Bank, Chelsea, Mass; Halle Brothers Department Store, Cleveland, Ohio; Waterbury General Hospital, Waterbury, Conn; National City Bank, New Rochelle, NY; Citizens & Manufacturers National Bank, Waterbury, Conn; First Congregational Church, Providence, RI; Gates for the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Woodmere High School, Woodmere, NY; Public Bath, Brooklyn, NY;.....
Bacon was very active as a designer of monuments and settings for public sculpture. He designed the
Architect Henry Bacon rarely found time for private residences. There are two known residential projects that are clearly his work. First is
The other Henry Bacon private residence is the Chesterwood House, which Bacon designed for his friend and famed sculptor
A Liberty Ship of the US Navy was built and named after architect Henry Bacon: "SS Henry Bacon", commissioned on November 11, 1942. The ship's captain and crew served during World War II with the utmost honor and heroism, many sacrificing their own lives to deliver 19 Norwegian refugees to safety under heavy attacks from 23 German torpedo bombers. "SS Henry Bacon" downed at least 5 of the German bombers before it succumbed to the huge number of torpedoes dropped by the 23 bombers.
Architectural settings, bases and exedra for sculpture
*Commodore
*Col. James Anderson Monument, (1904), Daniel Chester French, sculptor, Allegheny Square,
*August Robert Meyer Memorial, (1909) Daniel Chester French, sculptor,
*Prehn Mausoleum, (1912)
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*Lafayette Monument, (1917), Daniel Chester French sculptor, Prospect Park,
*Depew Memorial Fountain, (1919), Karl Bitter and
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*Jesse Parker Williams Memorial, (c. 1924), Daniel Chester French sculptor, Westview Cemetery,
Bacon died of cancer in
During
Resources
*The American Institute of Architects
*The American Academy of Arts & Letters
*Thomas,Christopher, "the Lincoln Memorial and its Architect"
*Thomas, Christopher, "The Lincoln Memorial and American Life", 2002
*The Olin Library, Wesleyan University
*Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, "America's Monuments", unpublished manuscript
*Richman, Michael, "Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor", The Preservation Press, Washington D.C., 1976
*Richman, Michael, "Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon", 1980
*Tolles, Bryant and Carolyn, "New Hampshire Architecture: An Illustrated Guide", New Hampshire Historical Society, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1979
*Wilkinson, Burke, and David Finn, photographs, "Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens", Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego 1985
*Wilson, Richard Guy, "The AIA Gold Medal", McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1984
See also
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External links
* [http://www.spinnc.org/celebratewilmington/wof_bacon.htm Biography]
* [http://www.nps.gov/linc/clr/clr_chap7_endnotes.pdf Christopher A. Thomas, "The Lincoln Memorial and Its Architect, Henry Bacon (1866-1924)"] ( Ph.D. diss., Yale University 1990)
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2879&PIgrid=2879&PIcrid=48265&PIpi=77735&pt=Henry+Bacon& Henry Bacon's Gravestone] ( [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2879&PIgrid=2879&PIcrid=48265&PIpi=79416&pt=Henry+Bacon& closeup] )
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