Chester Beach

Name

Chester Beach

Born

San Francisco, California

Died

Brewster, New York

born San Francisco, CA 1881-died Brewster, NY 1956

Active in

New York, New York

Nationalities

American

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Luce Artist Biography

Chester Beach worked in New York, Paris, and San Francisco, and his marble sculpture The Unveiling of the Dawn appeared in New York’s groundbreaking Armory Show in 1913. Beach designed coins and created sculptures in bronze and marble. He also taught sculpture at the Richmond Hill Settlement House in Queens, New York, from 1910 to 1922.