Edmond Thomas Quinn (1868 in

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– September 1929 in

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) was an American sculptor and painter. He is best known for his bronze statue of ''Edwin Booth as Hamlet'', which stands at the center of Gramercy Park in New York City. His larger-than-lifesize bronze bust of

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stands near The Pond in

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, New York City.

Education

He studied painting at the

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. Following Eakins's February 1886 forced-resignation from PAFA, Quinn followed him to the Art Students League of Philadelphia, and later became that short-lived school's curator. In Paris he trained for a time as a sculptor in the studio of

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Career

He exhibited regularly at the

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, showing paintings in 1891, 1893, 1905, 1906 and 1907. He first showed his sculpture there in 1908, and annually for many years, usually portrait busts. He won a silver medal for his bronze sculpture of model Audrey Munson at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. He also exhibited at the

(paintings: 1891, 1894, 1897; sculptures: 1899, 1901, 1905–06, 1908–10, 1914–16, 1921, 1923, 1925–26, 1928, posthumously 1930), and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was elected an Associate of the

in 1920, and was a member of the

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, the Century Association, the

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, and the Players Club, for whom he executed his statue of Booth. Quinn was recognized as being a fine portraitist whose work "shows taste and conscience." His portrait busts include

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, Sylvester Malone,

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and

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. His half-length, oil-on-canvas portrait of Attilio Piccirilli, the sculptor whose studio executed many works of American Beaux-Arts masters, is in the

, as are his painted portraits of Furio Piccirilli and Sherry E. Fry. The National Portrait Gallery has a large number of his portrait busts. __NOTOC__

Death

Quinn was found drowned off

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, New York City in September 1929, a suicide. Quinn had tried to kill himself four months earlier by drinking poison. Quinn's papers are at

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Selected works

Paintings

* ''Clown'' (oil on canvas, 1895), La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. * ''Portrait of Attilio Piccirilli'' (oil on canvas, 1911),

, New York City. * ''Portrait of Sherry E. Fry'' (oil on canvas, 1915),

, New York City. * ''Portrait of Furio Piccirilli'' (oil on canvas, 1919),

, New York City.

Sculptures

* ''Harry Wright Monument'',

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, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania (1897).

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, a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, was a player and manager whose last position was as manager of the Philadelphia team in the National League.. * ''William Howard (Portrait of a Seated Man)'', Howard Memorial Cathedral (Masonic), Williamsport, Pennsylvania (1905). * ''Bust of Edgar Allan Poe'', Poe Cottage, Bronx, New York (1908). * ''Zoroaster (Persian Religion and Philosophy)'',

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, Brooklyn, New York (1909–10). This architectural sculpture is approximately 12 feet (3.65 m) tall. * Architectural sculpture,

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, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1911),

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, architect. * ''Figure of a Nymph'',

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, New York City (1912). * ''Relief bust of J. Edward Swanstrom'', Columbus Park, Brooklyn, New York (1912). * ''Edwin Booth as Hamlet'', Gramercy Park, New York City (1918). Commissioned by the Players Club, whose clubhouse had been Booth's house. * ''Bust of Professor Franklin W. Hooper'', Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (1920). * ''Bust of Eugene O'Neill'', National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (1922). * ''Bust of Leon Kroll'', Whitney Museum of Art, New York City (1924). * ''Bust of Victor Herbert'',

, New York City (1927). * ''Bust of James McNeill Whistler'' (1928). * ''Bust of Dr. J. Marion Sims'',

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, Columbia, South Carolina (1929), Harold Sterner, architect. * ''Henry Clay'', Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (1929–30). Completed by Francis Herman Packer. * ''Bust of Frederick Dana Marsh'', Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, (year).

War memorials

* Bas reliefs for Battle Monument, Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina (1908). * ''Bust of General Winfield S. Featherston'',

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, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1915). * ''General John C. Pemberton Monument'',

, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1917). * ''Victory'', World War I Memorial, Faneuil Park, New Rochelle, New York (1921), Louis R. Metcalfe, architect.

Hall of Fame for Great Americans

* ''Bust of Edwin Booth'' (1926),

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, Bronx, New York. * ''Bust of James Kent'' (1926),

, Bronx, New York. * ''Bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes'' (1929),

, Bronx, New York. * ''Bust of John Quincy Adams'' (1930, posthumously unveiled),

, Bronx, New York.John Quincy Adams
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, Bala Cynwydd, Pennsylvania. File:Kings Mountain National Military Park - South Carolina (8558911902) (2).jpg, Bas reliefs (1908), King's Mountain Battle Monument, South Carolina. File:PittsburghAthleticAssociation.jpg,

(1911), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. File:New Rochelle WWI Memorial American Architect Feb. 15, 1922 p.129.jpg, ''Victory'' (1921), World War I Memorial, New Rochelle, New York. File:Edwin Booth HoF jeh.jpg, ''Edwin Booth'' (1926),

, Bronx, New York City. File:Central Park NYC - Victor Herbert statue by Edmund Thomas Quinn - IMG 5718 crop.JPG, ''

'' (1927),

, New York City. File:J. Marion Sims statue in Columbia, SC IMG 4780.JPG, ''Dr. J. Marion Sims'' (1929), Columbia, South Carolina.

References

Sources *Dearinger, David Bernard. ''Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design'' 2004:455. Notes

External links

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