Artist
Chester Beach
born San Francisco, CA 1881-died Brewster, NY 1956
- Born
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Died
- Brewster, New York, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- 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.