Artist

Wheeler Williams

born Chicago, IL 1897-died Madison, CT 1972

Media - J0002287_1b.jpg - 89389 — Wheeler Williams, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0002287

Born: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: Madison, Connecticut, United States
Active in: Paris, France
New York, New York, United States

Biography: Sculptor, a founder and president of the American Artist Professional League. He studied sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago and architecture at Harvard; portrait, garden and animal sculpture dominated his work.
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)
: Luce Artist Biography
Sculptor Wheeler Williams studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and his works include the west pediment of the Interstate Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. Williams was also president and a founder of the American Artists Professional League.

Works by this artist (2 items)

Joseph Mozier, Il Penseroso, 1866, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Capitol, XX75

Artist

Date1866

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Joseph Mozier, Flower Girl, 1867, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Thomas W. Evans Collection, 1983.101.4

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Date1867

marble