Adrian Voisin 1890-1979 Bronze Wolf Robe 2/50 Blackfeet Man

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*****Beautiful Museum Quality Bronze***** Adrien Alexander Voisin 1890-1979 Sculptor, watercolorist. Born in Islip , NY on Oct. 4, 1890 of French parents. Early in life Voisin was a taxidermist and an apprentice to a French woodcarver. He was a pupil of Sargent Kendall at the Yale School of Fine Arts and in 1912 had further study in Paris at Académie Colarossi, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs, and in the ateliers of Mercié and Injalbert. While in Paris he realized that his true talent lay in sculpture. After attending the Buffalo Bill Cody show in Paris , he became intrigued with Indians and began modeling the Indian busts for which he later became famous. Returning to America at the outbreak of WWI, he served in the U.S. Army. After the war he lived in southern California where he fulfilled architectural commissions (including work on Hearst Castle ) as well as memorial busts of public figures. In 1929 he lived among the Indians in Montana and became an honorary member of the local tribe. The following year he went to Paris where his works were cast in bronze and exhibited at the Exposition Coloniale. The French government awarded him the Diplome d'Honneur and in 1932 he received a gold medal in the international art exhibition in Paris . Moving to San Francisco in 1933, Voisin purchased the Old Albion read more
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