Artist

Robert Laurent

born Concarneau, France 1890-died Cape Neddick, ME 1970
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Robert Laurent, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001845
Born
Concarneau, France
Died
Cape Neddick, Maine, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Sculptor. Laurent was a modernist who pioneered direct carving in the United States. Nature and abstraction blended in is works in wood, alabaster, bronze and marble. Goose Girl (1932), at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, is his best-known commission.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)