Truman Howe Bartlett

Truman Howe Bartlett
Bust of Barlett, created 1887 by Olin Levi Warner
BornOctober 25, 1835
Dorset, Vermont, US
DiedFebruary 17, 1922(1922-02-17) (aged 86)
Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, US
OccupationSculptor
Children1, Paul Wayland Bartlett

Truman Howe Bartlett (October 21, 1835 – February 17, 1922), also known as T. H. Bartlett, was an American sculptor, and father to sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett.

Biography

Truman Howe Bartlett was born on October 21, 1835, in Dorset, Vermont. He studied under Robert Eberhard Launitz in New York City and subsequently in Paris, Rome, and Perugia. He was active in New Haven, Waterbury, and Hartford, Connecticut, and in New York City. For 22 years he was an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture department, and also operated a free art school for poor children. He died in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bartlett ran the only school for sculpture in Boston in that late 1800s. It was located on Washington Street, but later moved to Federal Street. Cyrus Dallin studied with Bartlett from 1880 to 1881. Bartlett allowed Dallin to live in his studio rent free when his funding ran low and wrote positively of his talents. The relationship would sour and in 1885 Bartlett would be critical of Dallin's winning first effort in the competition to sculpt Paul Revere.

Bartlett's best known works include The Wounded Drummer Boy of Shiloh, and the Horace Wells Monument (1875) in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut. Both bronzes were exhibited in Paris. According to Marquis, Bartlett was the first American sculptor to make a figure in terracotta.

Bartlett died on February 17, 1922, in Jamaica Plain, Boston.

Clark Family Monument (designed by Truman H. Bartlett in 1868; sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller in 1869)
Benedict Family Monument, Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, CT (designed by Truman H. Bartlett in 1871; sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller in 1872)

References

  1. 1 2 "Truman H. Bartlett, Noted Sculptor, Dies". Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. February 18, 1922. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Truman Howe Bartlett". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Biography Truman Bartlett". askART. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 Francis, Rell (1976). Cyrus E. Dallin Let Justice Be Done. Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. pp. 7–8 22.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed. (1915). Who's Who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. New England: A.N. Marquis & Company. p. 85. Retrieved 19 February 2016. Truman Howe Bartlett terracotta.
  6. ↑ Prichard, Sarah Johnson (1896). The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut. The Price and Lee Company. p. 1039. Retrieved 19 February 2016. bartlett.

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